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

you can write down the known heiarchy, then encompass that within a circle. add a picture of the DBA holding the sphere in his hand or better yet if you really want to get creative, place it on his back and have him poised like Atlas. There should be a minimum of 1,000 words in that picture =).

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We have a similar structure
Infrastructure - DBA

• Sys Admin
• Network Admin

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Hello Peter

We have an infrastructure division that divides into two departments: system programming and DBA.

Organization chart for us will be:
CEO -> CIO -> Infrastructure -> DBA.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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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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