"Isaac Blank" <izblank_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
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>
> > Of course, the developers will do this in development, the changes will
go
> > through QA and then be applied to production, by the production DBA.
> > Otherwise you don't have a change process.
>
> In our environment, the Release team puts the new code into the database,
> not the DBAs. So the concept of "production DBA" is somewhat blurry.
None
> of our DBAs knows the application to a degree where he/she can influence
the
> development beyond the physical object placement. But I understand we're
a
> strange beast. Half of our database developers used to be DBAs at some
> point or have completed DBA training.
That's fair enough, the process I was referring to doesn't necessarily map
to different people, but the essence should still hold (even if your
DBA/Developer and end user is all the same person ).
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:15:33 CDT
