Re: What are your DBA subclasses?

From: Michael Moore <michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:45:24 -0800
Message-ID: <AANLkTinRuORN_uW+WjWxCOCGpDksBkyZRLEoZ7HbBOZa_at_mail.gmail.com>



Kumar,
Your current situation sounds very much like what we've currently got. Thanks for your response.
Mike

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Kumar Madduri <ksmadduri_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> In my current work place, we have dba, unix sysadmin , storage admin and
> network and firewall groups.
> In my former work place, the dba group was divided in to 4 or 5 groups -
> one was responsible for db activities, one for project management, one for
> web services etc..
> But I like the current model where in you can be a well rounded dba
> compared to be placed in silos..
>
> kumar
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Moore <michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> When we were a much smaller company, we had one class of DB, "generic-DBA"
>> where DBA was an abbreviation for "Does 'Bout Anything". A given DBA was
>> responsible for Installation, patching, configuration, disk management,
>> PL/SQL code review, tuning SQL , application migration, development
>> standards etc etc.
>>
>> Now that we've grown into a billion dollar company with over a hundred
>> developers, we probably need to have more specialization. I'm thinking in
>> terms of DA, DCA, DBA ... you get the idea.
>>
>> I'd be interested in how other medium sized organizations divide up their
>> various DBA functions.
>>
>> I'm sure this has been disguised before, so if you wan't to link me to
>> reading material, that would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>
>

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