Re: SQLDMO for Oracle

Jim Smith wrote:

> I agree. It is like a Luddite DBA picket line.

I highly doubt that.

> There seems to be a view that there is no DBMS but oracle, all oracle
> systems are multi-terabyte RAC systems with teams of DBAs, and
> applications are things which are designed to break our databases.

I disagree. There is a view here that data is a corporate asset. That it has tremendous financial and, in many cases, legal value.

A 1MB database containing customer credit card numbers needs the same care and professional expertise as the petabyte databases of the credit card companies.

This is not about attitude trumping aptitude. It is about the simple fact that developers do not have the expertise or the job responsibility to be handling such a valuable corporate asset. And if management knew the level of ineptness they would throw a well-justified fit.

Take this discussion and put it into the context of surgeons vs general practitioners ... or surgeons vs surgical nurses. I don't mind the surgical nurse assisting ... but I'll have an attorney take apart any medical facility foolish enough to let a nurse close on my body. This is no different.

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