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Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE

From: Galen Boyer <galen_boyer_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 6 Nov 2007 21:37:01 -0600
Message-ID: <u8x5ar1ce.fsf@rcn.com>


On Tue, 06 Nov 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:

> Hasta wrote:
>> In article <1194284665.769857_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>,
>> damorgan_at_psoug.org says...
>>> Hasta wrote:

>>>> In article <1194206398.972648_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>,
>>>> damorgan_at_psoug.org says...
>>>>> My point was that while the developers here seemed more than
>>>>> willing to point fingers at incompetent DBAs from my experience
>>>>> the developers are equally guilty of not keeping their skills
>>>>> current. Not more so ... equally so.
>>>> Well, honnestly, I haven't seen a lot of developpers in this
>>>> group claiming that dbas are generally incompetent.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen them claiming that a dba is unlikely to find the
>>>> root cause of an application problem alone, for reasons that
>>>> are very understandable and unrelated to his/her competency.
>>> You are dissembling. Identifying root causes on a production server
>>> is a core competency of the DBA job in the vast majority of
>>> organizations.
>> A good dba can certainly find one cause in the causal chain.
>> However, he does not know the specifications of the components
>> of the system. Without a specification, he cannot identify with
>> certaincy the root component that is misbehaving.
> 
> Then he or she is incompetent and should be trained or replaced.

So, while this replacement is considered, how is the problem to be figured out?

-- 
Galen Boyer
Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 21:37:01 CST

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