Re: pl/sql code maintenance

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:26:54 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote:

>If there are developers in a test or production database ... the DBA isn't
>doing the job the DBA was hired to do.

In many situations that's not the situation, because usually developers think they are God and a DBA is by design *stupid* or he wouldn't have become a DBA.
My firm has been dealing several times with button-trained monkeys coming directly from school, employed by some very large consultancy firms (which will always get away with the mess they are selling because they can afford to hire the best lawyers), without any specific Oracle experience, telling our DBA's what to do, and no DBA was allowed to do *anything* without *explicit written permission* of the consultancy firm. The term RFC (Request For Change) probably does ring a bell, or are you really living in a paradisian ivory tower at the University of Washington?
With *anything* I include *all* activities which are usually the exclusive domain of the DBA. Only if the monkeys screw up (which they do very often) it is the privilege of my firm to restore backups (because no trained monkey would even deign himself to clean the mess that he caused)

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Fri Dec 20 2002 - 17:52:59 CST