Galen Boyer wrote:
> 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?
If you can't figure out how to get a qualified DBA in one hour
contact me. I can get you one in that much time during normal
business hours.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 00:43:09 CST
