First, a production dba is "who" and not "what" (except
on St. Patrick's day, but that's another story)
Second, a production DBA
- Constantly monitors the database for performance
- Shuts the database down and starts it up during the scheduled
downtime events.
- reviews audit trail and provides daily security report.
- grants/ revokes access
- allocates additional space to the database
- Communicates with the Oracle Corp. and opens TARs, orders
software
- evaluates and installs any patches and patchsets.
- provides weekly and monthly reports about the disk space consumption
which say how much space is left and who consumes how much disk space
- Is the first contact for any production database problem. He or she will
be the most frequently called person in the company, without the need to
win Mr. or Miss Popularity contest.
- Keeps the log of all DBA activities pertaining to the production
environment.
- Keeps constantly in touch with Mr. Simon Trevaglia for best practices and
makes sure that his/hers BDBAFH skills are regularly updated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Barnett [mailto:regdba_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?
>
>
> We are having this debate. What is a 'Production
> DBA'? Right now all of the DBAs do some of
> everything. In an effort to focus more DBA time on
> infrastructure, damagement is floating the idea of
> Production and Applications DBAs. The DBA group has
> loosely translated this into the group that is always
> on-call and the group that gets their weekends off.
>
> I would appreciate some input from those of you who
> are Production DBAs.
>
>
>
> =====
> Pete Barnett
> Lead Database Administrator
> The Regence Group
> pnbarne_at_regence.com
>
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