RE: Why an organization would need an enterprise DB team

From: Mercadante, Thomas F \(LABOR\) <Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:38:24 -0400
Message-ID: <ABB9D76E187C5146AB5683F5A07336FFE08C76@EXCNYSM0A1AJ.nysemail.nyenet>

Jared said:

"This can be mitigated on the DBA side simply by having a regularly scheduled meeting to keep all sides apprised of what is going on."    

Hahahahahahahahha....hahahahahahahaha.....  

Wait for it  

hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaaha  

There. I feel better.  

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:13 PM
To: Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Why an organization would need an enterprise DB team  

On 3/27/07, Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com> wrote:

	We have just had this split and the
	battle we're fighting is that we don't hear about anything until
it's 
	ready to go into production.  We get emails like, "Project X is
ready to
	go into production, please have the database ready for us

tomorrow."         

        Our response is, "What is project X? What are the servers? Is there a

        DR requirement? What is the size, what is the expected growth, and

        incidentally the firewall ports aren't opened for us to access the

        server so you're going to have to wait a lot longer than 'tomorrow'."

This can be mitigated on the DBA side simply by having a regularly scheduled meeting to keep all sides apprised of what is going on.

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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