RE: What are your DBA subclasses?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:48:35 -0600
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Having been through this several times at small-to-medium sized shops (5-10 DBAs), my experience is that there are essentially two models:
Function-specific divisions: "production DBA", "development DBA", etc. Project/product-specific divisions: "all-around DBA" assigned to different systems and following the system from inception to production.
The former is far more common. In my opinion, the latter is usually better. In addition to developing better all-around DBAs, with the latter, the one(s) designing and building the system get to suffer (or benefit from) their own mistakes (or lack thereof). There is far less motivation for a "throw it over the wall - on time - and 'fix it later - when we have time' approach. [With rushed/half-baked design and implementation, there is never "more time to fix it later". All that time and more is spent on the gerbil-wheel of just keeping the system alive.] There is also the non-negligible advantage of having the production DBA being intimately familiar with the system.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Michael Moore
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:12 PM
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Subject: What are your DBA subclasses?
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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