Re: Why DBA?

From experience (I wear many hats),

It's not necessary to have a DBA in order to maintain Oracle Databases - Anyone with a reasonably good technical background who can grasp RDBMS concepts and assimilate technical details on the fly can perform the "run-of-the-mill" DBA tasks (In fact, I believe that the GOOD database programmers should know more intricacies of the database than a DBA).

The main advantage of having a dedicated DBA would be that there would be definite accountability and other resources are not stressed out... especially during the beginning of a planned major event or any unexpected major event!

-Lute.

"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message news:tbo9otoesl3s6jh5hg2h8ai9dr4l46priu_at_4ax.com...
> Dear all,
>
> My company is going to replace the order managment system with an ERP
> package and Oracle database. We have been using this system for 15
> years, we write RPG programs accessing the S36 file system on an
> AS/400 machine, which rarely requires any database administration
> except for backup. Quite naturally, people wonder why we need a DBA
> for the new system. What does an DBA do that programmers cannot do?
> Why aren't an DBA necessary for AS/400 packages? Any comments are
> highly appreciated.
>
> Dino
>
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 10:32:36 CDT