Re: Comments: RFD: comp.databases.oracle reorganization

stevec_at_zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Steve Cosner) wrote:

>To all in group-advice and comp.databases.oracle:
 

>I have run into a roadblock in my attempt to move ahead with the
>creation of the new group, comp.databases.oracle.dba, rather than a
>group named comp.databases.oracle.admin. David Lawrence, moderator of
>news.announce.newgroups, has rejected the RFD due to the choice of the
>cdo.dba name.
>-- it is an acronym, and
>-- it is inconsistent with other names.

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>--The preferable term for Database administration is DBA. In the area
>of database systems and especially within comp.databases.oracle, dba
>is a term used and recognized by practically everyone involved, while
>the administration term is hardly used. While the term DBA is an
>acronym, it has become practically a word with database workers.
>
>To quote some of the comments from the discussion:
>
>-- Names such as .misc and .admin were fine when the population was a
>homongenous bunch of academics and CS researchers who would read a
>faq, but we have to deal with the general population now. Use
>English, not obscure English-like terms with special meanings.

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>
>Regards,
>Steve Cosner
>

Steve,

Anyone interested in NEWS beneath comp.databases who sees a subgroup called dba and doesn't know what it means probably shouldn't be there to begin with. Database administrators are common with virtually any "brand" of database. I've been a DBA for 12 years and, in our industry, DBA is just as common a term/title as a CPA in the accounting field.

Times and vocabulary change. Stick with dba.

Mike Morgan
#include <disclaimer.std> Received on Tue Jun 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST