Re: Which Database (MySQL, Oracle, mSQL, Protgress etc.)

In article <m2u39qlmm9.fsf_at_lucifer.guardian.no>, Bjorn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no> wrote:

>the DBA doesn't usually
>concern himself with designing applications -- he is in charge of the
>well-being of the database, sometimes lending a hand when databases
>are being designed

IMO, here is a really *sad* statement. My software engineering background just screams out when I realize that DBA's today really don't get involved with app's. It's really sad that there has to be a person totally dedicated to a database's "well being". Can't the database take care of itself? All of the clients I deal with, including the Fortune 50's I consult to, don't have this problem with their Progress systems.

The sites I deal with consider DBA work part of the system admin's job. It usually takes a half hour a day for supervising backups, and maybe a half day a month for some index reorganization. That's supposed to be a full person? And in terms of database design, the guy that designs it should implement it. Today's repository type dictionaries take all of 45 seconds to create some new fields/files.

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