Re: What are your DBA subclasses?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:15:57 -0600
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I personally think DBAs should never, ever be considered as a subclass. Hell no, we're members of the Super Class! It's the rest of those IT slugs that make up the subclasses. So, you should put your esteemed co-workers into several Elite Classes - SuperMen, Iron Men, Green Lanterns, etc. Well, probably SuperPersons and Iron Folks to be gender neutral.
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From: Michael Moore <michaeljmoore_at_gmail.com> To: Kumar Madduri <ksmadduri_at_gmail.com>, oracle-l_at_freelists.org Date: 02/16/2011 09:49 AM
Subject: Re: What are your DBA subclasses? Sent by: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
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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