Re: DBA Job Description, anyone?

From: <rmccall_at_glf.com>
Date: 1995/06/12
Message-ID: <3rika8$7eu_at_ns2.glf.com>#1/1


In <3rhjl4$159i_at_huey.cadvision.com>, yeer_at_cadvision.com (Doris Jetz) writes:
>In article <3rg5cg$11a3_at_echo.i-link.net>, under_paid_at_high_stress.com says...
>
>::::Originally, whitney_at_en.com (Nancy C. Whitney) wrote:
Thanks for the support, my orginal comments were suppose to be funny but as you can see Ms. Whitney obviously had a bad day and was not in a humorous mood.

I was rather >>offended<< by her reply about the nuts, by the way but since I am a computer geek kinda of guy I guess I have to be not offended.

I will never reply back to Ms. Whitney again until she loosens soemthing.

Bob McCallister
>
>::::I need to put together a job description for an Oracle DBA. Does
>::::anyone have a job description for such a position?
 

>:::In article <3rb38o$9op_at_ns2.glf.com>, rmccalli_at_glf.com replied...
 

>:::Under paid, over worked, high stress, blamed for everything that goes
>:::wrong including loose nuts behind keyboard.
 

>::THEN, whitney_at_en.com (Nancy C. Whitney) said:
 

>::You must be slow, ineffective, and screw up a lot if that is the
>::way your job is!
 

>::I do not need a job description for that sort of DBA. I need a
>::job description for a senior level DBA who is competent and
>::professional.
 

>::As for you - get back to work and quit doing strange things with your
>::nuts behind the keyboard.
 

>:::Nancy
 

>:Hey Nan,
 

>:Loosen the bun in your hair; remove that tight girdle; take a break; DO
>:SOMETHING but please--get a grip!!! Clearly >>YOU<< are over worked and
>:much too stressed out to miss the *obvious* humor in that reply. I'm sure
>:every DBA who read the reply laughed as most (all?) have felt that way at
>:least once in their careers.
>
>Hey, I thought it was pretty funny...
>and I haven't been a DBA that long...
>and haven't felt that way ... YET!
>
>I think this is what you might be looking for. I got it from a presentation a member of our local
>Oracle Users Group did a while back. It will vary from shop to shop depending on the
>number of people in the IS department and how the responsibilities are divided up but I think it
>is a good guideline:
>
>What services does a DBA provide?
>
>- Software Installation and Maintenance
>- Sottware License Management
>- Software Migration and Propagation
>- Automated Operations
>- Configuration Management
>- Object Creation and Maintenance
>- Space Management
>- Capacity Planning
>- Backup and Recovery
>- Security
>- Integrity
>- Technical Consulting and Training
>- Performance Tuning
>- Performance Monitoring
>- Technical Standards and Guidelines
>- Problem Management
>- Availability and Fault Management
>- Data Transfer and Data Conversion
>- 7x24 On-call Support
>- Technical Vision (what's coming next ie. Parallel Processing, Symmetric Replication)
>
>Hope THIS helps
>
>Doris Jetz
>yeer_at_cadvision.com
>
Received on Mon Jun 12 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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