RE: survey - DBA structure in your company ?
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:13:10 -0500
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We have a bit of a mix here. One config is we have a bunch of DBAs assigned to a "pool". That pool supports x number of clients and their databases. The folks in the pool are crosstrained on all clients and trade a pager weekly for off-hour support, so they handle all emergencies. During regular hours they have a small subset of clients/dbs that they support ongoing.
The second config (which I'm a part of) is x number of DBAs are assigned to a client and they manage all dbs only for that client, trading support within the team. As with the first config, we support all facets of the DBA job, just in this case it's for one client (albeit a biggy).
David C. Herring | DBA, Acxiom Automotive
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Subject: survey - DBA structure in your company ?
We are a reasonably large corporation, with 650 Oracle databases. We are having a bit of internal discussion going on concerning different support models:
(1) Having separation of duties for DBAs: one DBA area in responsible
for infrastructure across all databases and another group doing
application DBA work across multiple application databases, closer to
the applications and their data or
(2) Doing DBA work in silos: one DBA would be responsible for a certain
set of applications and databases end-to-end, responsible for all
infrastructure and application data work for that set of applications
We currently have a structure like this:
We have systems DBAs that are responsible for the database infrastructure - installing the server software & patching, tuning at the instance level, monitoring db server capacity, backup & recovery, adding sizing datafiles, disaster recovery, database creation, user & security administration, 24x7 level 3 support.
We have application DBAs that are closer to the application data, and are responsible for creating and maintaining the application schema objects (tables, indexes, etc), some SQL statement tuning, logical backups (exp/imp) of application objects, data loads, 24x7 level 2 support.
I am curious what other folks are doing.
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