Re: Realistic administration duties

The July issue of the RevealNet Pipeline Newsletter has a feature article detailing daily, weekly and monthly checklists for DBAs. Here's the link: http://www.revealnet.com/newsletter/newsletter_0700.htm

HTH Cam White
RevealNet, Inc.

argosy22_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <8mk43f$e92$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
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>HI experienced admins,
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>I'm hoping that some of you can outline the scope
>of your duties.
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>I was hired six months ago as an Oracle DBA. They
>then said, oh, you get to do the Unix admin too.
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>We have a very complex and unstable application
>on the web. What I actually spend most of my
>time doing is administering this awful application.
>There are 14 different pieces of software involved
>in this one app! They have plans to make it
>even more complex!
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>As a result, the real DBA, and Unix admin duties,
>such as backups (!!!!) are not being tended to,
>or even looked at properly.
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>In most of my previous positions, the Unix admins, and
>the DBAs were not very closely associated with the app.
>They mostly kept the servers and databases running.
>(At one shop, any simple request (chmod) had to be put
>in paper writing!) Senior developers, operations, or
>managers administered the application.
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>However, all this has been thrown at me. I don't have time
>to read and research properly all the issues that I need
>to deal with. (Thanks to all of you for answering
>my postings.) It really burns me out.
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>I'm wondering:
>- how would you describe the typical duties of a Unix admin,
>or a DBA? What parts are the most fundamental?
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>- how involved are you administrators with administering
>your company's app?
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>- do you know in depth all the other development tools,
>Java, ColdFusion, Perl, HTML, the awful workflow system that
>you bought, etc.?
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>Thanks for reading.
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>Argosy
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Received on Sun Aug 06 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT