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Re: What does a DBA do on a regular basis?

From: Andrew Pahomov <skylark_at_skylark.com.ua>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:21:50 +0200
Message-ID: <3aa4e46f@miik2-ilt.ilt.kharkov.ua>

In Revealnet Oracle Administration knowelge base exist DBA checklist provides generic guidelines for performing daily, weekly, and monthly checks of the status of one or more Oracle databases.

Dave Weeks <dave_at_tc3.co.uk> wrote in message news:982mlt$1qb$1_at_reader-00.news.insnet.cw.net...
>
> Pat Boivin <lori.pat_at_ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:3AA43405.CA0B60D5_at_ns.sympatico.ca...
> > At work they prepared new generic DBA job descriptions, and there is not
> > a word in there about system administration.
> >
> > I guess I am ranting a bit about this, but how often do you find that
> > management has no idea what a DBA does? They are used to what system
> > admin's do, because that role has existed for so long, but DBAs are
> > sometimes seen as simple software administrators.
> >
> > Are there many people out there whose responsibilities don't include any
> > SA work on paper, but in real life there is a considerable overlap with
> > what SA's do?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Halifax, Canada.
>
>
> Hello Mr. Software Developer, your job is now extended with the simple
 task
> of learning Oracle. Hey, it's just like
> Access, should be easy and all our clients with their 50Mb databases will
 be
> using it. Go on the 3 week DBA training course and come back ready to
> configure replicated environments for applications no-one knows anything
> about. BTW, what do you do all day, seems like a waste of time reading
> comp.databases.oracle.server. Didn't they teach you it all on the courses
> already? Better start writing those procedures for parallel recovery on
> multi-processor servers, I'm sure it's a walk in the park for you.
>
>
> </rant>
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 06 2001 - 07:21:50 CST

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