Re: database systems: an environment of roles & players

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:49:27 +0200
Message-ID: <4260d199$0$95207$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

mountain man wrote:

> "dawn" wrote  
> 

>>mountain man wrote:
>>
>>>In the following tabulation we list a number of different
>>>roles and players that would normally be associated with
>>>the database systems environment at any organisation.
>>
>>Your list doesn't look like something "associated with the database
>>systems environment at any organisation" but only with those
>>organizations employing a relational model -- is that correct?

> 
> No, it was supposed to be for any organisation over
> a certain size, at which time they will all have invested
> in some DBMS of some form.   It need not be related
> to the RM.

[snip]
>>>==================================
>>> DATABASE SYSTEMS ROLE-TYPES
>>>==================================
>>>
>>>--------------- Internal to the organisation:
>>>I01 - business owner(s)
>>>I02 - business executives and managers
>>>I03 - general organisation work-groups/end-users
>>>I04 - DBA
>>
>>This role, as typically defined in an organization supporting
>>SQL-DBMS's does not exist at companies not supporting SQL-DBMS's.
>>
>>I would add a "data modeling" role, however, which seems to be required
>>independent of implementation tools.

The 'Data administrator' specializes in meaning, consistency, language used in datamodels. I have seen DA's in SQL and non SQL shops. I have also seen sites who should need a DA but lacked the cooperative culture needed to sustain the work.

>>>I05 - IT manager
>>>I06 - internal programmers
>>>I07 - specialised development teams
>>>I08 - Operations & help desk personnel
>>>
>>>
>>>--------------- External to the organisation:

Why the Internal/External split?

>>>E01 - contractors and consultants (in any roles defined above)
>>>E02 - contract programmers (or software house(s))
>>>E03 - consultants and suppliers (of selected RDBMS software)
>>>E04 - consultants and suppliers (of other software & hardware)
>>>E05 - business, management and financial consultants
>>>E06 - consultants in the Relational Model of Data
>>
>>and, of course, there are consultants in other data models as well

> 
> So E06 could be made more general, such as
> E06 - consultants in the data model

I don't think DA is a consultancy job.

HTH. Received on Sat Apr 16 2005 - 03:49:27 CDT