On Tue, 06 Nov 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
> Hasta wrote:
>> In article <1194284665.769857_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>,
>> damorgan_at_psoug.org says...
>>> Hasta wrote:
>>>> In article <1194206398.972648_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>,
>>>> damorgan_at_psoug.org says...
>>>>> My point was that while the developers here seemed more than
>>>>> willing to point fingers at incompetent DBAs from my experience
>>>>> the developers are equally guilty of not keeping their skills
>>>>> current. Not more so ... equally so.
>>>> Well, honnestly, I haven't seen a lot of developpers in this
>>>> group claiming that dbas are generally incompetent.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen them claiming that a dba is unlikely to find the
>>>> root cause of an application problem alone, for reasons that
>>>> are very understandable and unrelated to his/her competency.
>>> You are dissembling. Identifying root causes on a production server
>>> is a core competency of the DBA job in the vast majority of
>>> organizations.
>> A good dba can certainly find one cause in the causal chain.
>> However, he does not know the specifications of the components
>> of the system. Without a specification, he cannot identify with
>> certaincy the root component that is misbehaving.
>
> Then he or she is incompetent and should be trained or replaced.
So, while this replacement is considered, how is the problem to be
figured out?
--
Galen Boyer
Received on Tue Nov 06 2007 - 21:37:01 CST
