On Fri, 02 Nov 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
> Marc Blum wrote:
>> On 2 Nov 2007 09:42:04 -0500, Galen Boyer <galen_boyer_at_yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In my experience, DBA's DON'T:
>>> 1) know what the business problem is that is being solved.
>> IMHO the main point and it's not the DBA's fault. Business processes
>> are incredible complex. And the DBA ist full time ited to get the
>> databases up and running. Business logic is not within his realm. So
>> no complaining about that. You need several persons with different
>> knowledge and skillsets working close together to get urgent issues
>> solved FAST.
>
> You don't fix business logic in production you fix business logic in
> test. If you can't do that then you are just flailing away trying
> random stuff until something makes it better or worse.
But, to fix anything, you first need to understand what you might affect
were you to change anything about the code.
--
Galen Boyer
Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 15:28:02 CDT
