Message-Id: <10693.122908@fatcity.com>
From: "Shevtsov, Eduard" <EShevtsov@flagship.ru>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:36:50 +0300
Subject: RE: Where is DBA position in your organization?

Hi Walt,

it looks like Jethro had a big experience of driving of school buses in the
past. :-)

Ed

>  
>  
>  Lucky boy. We would love to report to IS. Unfortunately, we 
>  report to the
>  Vice President of Customer Services. 
>  
>  Scenario (happens every day, really!):
>  
>  Phone rings: "Hello, this is Walt". 
>  
>  "Hey, Walt, this is Jethro". (name changed to protect the guilty). 
>  
>  "Hey, Jethro, what's up?". 
>  
>  "Well, we just got an irate call from the White House. They 
>  say their web
>  site is slow. I called development and they say their code 
>  is optimized to
>  the nth degree and it must be a problem on the SA/Oracle side".
>  
>  "Well, Jethro, I take issue with that. We just tkprof'd the 
>  hell out of the
>  whole app, and it's currently redefining the meaning of 
>  'cartesion join'.
>  Not a whole lot we can do on our end". 
>  
>  "Walt, I don't care what you think. Users are pissed off and 
>  the whole
>  Development Department are up in the Beartooths hunting this 
>  weekend. Fix it
>  or start driving school buses".
>  
>  "Can't, Jethro. I'm hunting this weekend too."
>  
>  "Bullshit, Walt. My 11-year-old daughter told me that your
>  11-year-old-daughter said that you're flying her to Helena 
>  to visit some
>  friends. No excuse. Fix, it, or Monday morning you'll be 
>  driving the school
>  bus that picks up my daughter, Jermaine".
>  
>  Phone goes dead. I spend the rest of my day cursing middle 
>  management.
>  
>  But, I'm getting DAMN good at tuning SQL statements.  :>)
>  
>  And, sometimes living in a small town ain't all that great.  :>)
>  
>  --Walt Weaver
>    Bozeman, Montana, USA
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>  Sent: 11/25/2000 7:50 AM
>  
>  In our group we are the SA's.  We have a small shop and the 
>  DBA's/SA's
>  report to the Director of IS Operations.  We also support the
>  development
>  teams and do some design work.  Our primary responsibility is to keep
>  the
>  production systems up, available, and tuned.  So, when 
>  conflicts between
>  prod vs dev come up the production is primary.
>  
>  Rodd Holman
>  Enterprise Data Systems Engineer
>  LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation
>  rodney.holman@lodgenet.com
>  Comments made are my own opinions and views. They do not represent
>  views,
>  policies, or procedures of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation
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