Re: What kind of a DBA are you?

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3ED8E33F.C90F280E_at_exxesolutions.com>...
> Franklin wrote:
>
> > I thought this was an interesting take on DBAs:
> >
> > http://www.dbazine.com/burleson13.shtml
> >
> > Based on this article, I would categorize some DBAs as follows:
> >
> > Scientist DBA - Tom Kyte, Jonathan Lewis, Steve Adams, Noons,
> > Sybrand Bakker
> >
> > Gung Ho DBA - Rich Neimeic, Mike Ault, Don Burleson, Cary Millsap,
> > Daniel Morgan, Norman Dunbar
> >
> > Empathetic DBA - Kevin Loney, Jonathan Gennick, Jeremiah Wilton, Richard
> > Foote, Naill Litchfield
> >
> > Pathetic DBA - Hmmm, best keep this to myself
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://dbforums.com
>
> My office is imaculate otherwise I'll go along with it. Why not as it is
> rather flattering and egos need polishing from time-to-time.
>
> What unfortunately is missing from Burleson's piece are a few other DBA
> categories:
>
> 1. The paranoid DBA
> Is afraid to grant select on v_$ and dba_ views to developers in the
> development instance for fear they might use that privilege to take over the
> world. Someone once asked them to install plan_table and they reported it to
> HR as abusive behavior.

666. The Bastard DBA (from hell)
knows that if the developers can code against the dictionary in development, that they will write code that relies upon this, and complain when it does not work in QA and Production (as of course, it does not get tested along the way).

Instills enough fear in duhvelopers of being exposed of not being clueful, that they will not be lazy and just ask a question without making a token effort in the documentation.

does not allow direct access to \udump (trace files) as all file sharing and netBIOS has been disabled on the Oracle Server OS.

refuses to allow db_links from dev into production.

Pd Received on Sun Jun 01 2003 - 15:50:58 CDT