Re: How do you feel about allowing non-DBA's on your database servers?

From: Tony van Lingen <tony_vanlingen_at_technologyonecorp.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:49:42 +1000
Message-ID: <4A6F8E96.5090109_at_technologyonecorp.com>

Which is an argument for contracting the developers to do the on-going support as well. We manage a lot of applications which produce a right-royal verbal diarreah of trace info, and they are all apps that were written by companies that were contracted beforehand to do the on-going app support as well. That gave them an incentive to put effort into understanding their application and what would be useful in troubleshooting and build a good trace facility in. We don't give them prod access (or acceptance test even) as a rule - they've got to use their app.

Unfortunately they tend to leave the tracing running in maximum verbosity mode..

Cheers,
Tony

Around 29/07/2009 7:14 AM, Niall Litchfield said:
> that'll generally be because of economics - no really.
>
> a trace facility is of interest to those who primarily troubleshoot
> systems - the people who ask "what happened?, when? for how long?
> why?" These people are not generally developers. arguably they should
> be, but they aren't and the likelihood of them being so is reducing
> over time. The people who can effectively implement a trace/debug
> facility are in fact developers. They however, are rightly, interested
> in what they are employed for which is delivering 'features' fast and
> cheap. trace costs development effort and doesn't reward anyone
> involved in the development. of course offloading responsibility for
> production performance issues to developers may not be especially
> popluar with this group, but I bet the resultant systems would be.
>
> Niall
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
> <mailto:dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>> wrote:
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> Has anyone seen a development implementing really useable
> trace environments?
>
>
> No. And it shuts them off real quick!
> ;)
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>
> That's something I just can't understand.
>
> How do they develop software without a decent trace built in?
>
> Implementing a trace system with different levels
> of verbosity isn't very difficult.
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
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