RE: EM access to developers
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:37:20 +0000
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Your arguments against Dev access to OEM sound more like a training issue than anything else. FWIW, I have worked with DBA's in past lives that fit the same criteria below whom I would not have wanted to have access to OEM either, let alone developers.
At my current job, I work with some very astute developers. We cooperate in ways that makes us both better caretakers of our Oracle environment. They can read trace files, they can tune SQL, and they have a desire to write better code and learn more about how to interact with an Oracle database specifically (as opposed to just some black box data store). For every lackey developer I have come across in the past who doesn't give two hoots about the code they write and how it performs, I have run a across someone who calls themselves a DBA who should be trusted with a SQL*Plus login.
It works the other way too for me. The better I understand the job of the developer, how their code works, and what they are trying to accomplish, the better I can set up the database, recommend features, and provide top shelf service.
With all that said, I can empathize with your concerns...it wasn't long ago that I was reluctant to share OEM with anyone but a DBA. Now, especially with 12c, and in the company of a quality development team with whom I work, I see that this is a win-win. Yes, it takes some training, and some work. But, in the long run, I think it will be mutually beneficial.
Chris..
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On 01/30/2015 09:37 PM, kellyn.potvin_at_ymail.com wrote:
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> I saw too many IT departments remove DBA roles from their staff
> because DBAs were viewed as roadblocks to project success.
So have I. The IT departments that have done so have never succeeded, in the long run.
> Attend a conference like ODTUG's KSCOPE and you'll hear this story so
> often from the developers that it will make you realize that the "us
> vs. them" scenario is making DBAs a liability instead of an asset.
DBA is the guardian of the production database, the person ultimately responsible for its performance and availability. If the developer wants to put a huge full table scan in an OLTP application and use PQ to resolve it quickly, it's the DBA job to prevent that from happening, because such query would consume resources needed for other programs. I used to work as a production DBA in a companies with several thousands of online users, using web applications. If DBA doesn't exercise a tight control over the database, performance will ultimately become sluggish for everybody. And that is a resume generating event. It's my job to prevent that from happening.
> Steven Feuerstein often asks in his sessions, "of the DBAs in here,
> how many grant access to performance views in Enterprise Manager?" I'm
> often the only one who raises their hand and the common excuse is, "If
> we grant them access, then they'll be able to see things" Really.
Of course they will be able to see things, but would they be able to interpret them correctly? Performance tuning requires certain training and certain mindset. Developers are rarely trained for performance tuning. From my experience, they don't show too much interest in the performance analysis. You would be surprised to learn how many developers still think in terms of buffer cache hit ratios.
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> Well, here's the way I see it. No DBA has any excuse for complaining
> about the quality of code released in production if they aren't
> willing to provide developers and testing the same access to view
> performance data in tools such as Enterprise Manager as they have.
Why is that? What would you achieve by giving an access to trace files to the person who doesn't know how to analyze them? What would you achieve by giving access to all those performance monitors to the people who are not sure how to interpret them? Instead of a diagnosis we would get a debate about the meaning of the monitoring data.
> With more and more companies moving towards Agile, more companies
> using scrum masters/scrum collaboration, it is essential for everyone
> to understand the challenges they are up against and truly work as a team.
Agile is frequently used incorrectly and becomes the source of the problem. The financial appeal of Agile is cutting the costs of QA. The end result is frequently spewing large quantities of code, without DBA being able to influence it. About 3 years ago, I resigned my DBA position at a company which was doing Agile, precisely because of that. There was an application code in the SYS schema. I am not a big fan of Agile.
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