Re: DBA place in the business (was RE: DBA work load)

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:17:03 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004DA4D3.20020926101703@fatcity.com>

I've thought for some time now that DBA's are the pragmatist's of IT.

We fit everywhere, and nowhere.

My boss is still trying to figure out what I do. ;)

Jared

"Robson, Peter" <pgro_at_bgs.ac.uk>
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I've found the thread on DBA workload valuable and interesting. It endorses
points made repeatedly over the past years, basically the highly variable nature of the job.

This variability is giving us a small problem. Our dba work (shared between
two of us) tends to function in the background, and of course because we do
it so damn well (!!), our impact on the running of the organisation is pretty low. Kind of 'reverse exception' effect, if you will.

There is now a desire to formalise the role of the dba function within the organisation, and nobody has the first idea of how to define, in an organisational / structural sense just how the dba role slots in. I'm talking about organsiational charts, herarchies etc, that sort of thing. Not
just across the org, but particularly within the IT domain too. Specifically, dba impacts from the low-level hardware side, right up to application development, with everything in between. And that already spans
several existing lines of management responsibility. Our problem has added spice as we are (trying) to operate a matrix management system, which repeatedly throws up intriguing political dimensions.

Anybody ever been down this particular route?

Any thoughts much appreciated,

peter
edinburgh

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