DBAs and System Managers - War and Peace?

Apologies if this has been discussed before:

How do different organizations deal with the overlapping roles of system managers and DBAs and conflicts that may arise?

Are you one and the same, so have no problems?

In particular:

1. Who manages disk space?
2. Are DBAs actively involved in defining, or directly define
   • memory usage?
   • disk usage/distribution?
   • user account setup?
   • hardware configuration for capacity planning?
   • batch jobs such as backup/verfication
   • disk setup such as disk physical cluster sizes ( small for OLTP, big for media )
   • disk setup like BUY LOTS OF LITTLE DISKS, not a few big ones! ( more heads, more parallelism, more performance...)
3. Do you have liberal system privileges ( can stop any process, can see any file/exe)?
4. If you see a disk below 1% free and can't get a hold of anyone, do you go out and diagnose the problem?
5. Can you start up/shutdown
   • the database?
   • the transaction monitor?
6. Do you drive hardware purchases, do you use what you're given, or do you participate as a team?

Any other interesting factors welcome!

thanks! Received on Wed Sep 27 1995 - 00:00:00 CET