Re: Who should the DBA report to?
From: Gillian Dawn Elizabeth Lezama <glezama_at_amoco.com>
Date: 1995/08/04
Message-ID: <3vthiq$klj_at_cronkite.amoco.com>#1/1
Date: 1995/08/04
Message-ID: <3vthiq$klj_at_cronkite.amoco.com>#1/1
Mike,
I agree with you totally. I have been a DBA for the past four years, and it is only recently, that I started to report to the Manager. I get more work done with less politics and protocol.
Keep up the struggle...Gillian
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In article <mkohutnw-0308952310100001_at_tom.yknet.yk.ca>,
mkohutnw_at_yknet.yk.ca says...
>
>In my organization, the DBA reports to the head of computer operations.
>Personally, I don't think this is appropriate, because the DBA's
>skill sets and duties are distinct from those of the operations staff.
>I think that a more appropriate management structure would be as
follows:
>
> Manager
> |
> ---------------------------
> | | |
>Operations DBA Analysts
>Manager
> | |
>Operators Programmer/Analysts
> & Programmers
>
>I would like to hear opinions on this issue from others in this group
>(especially other DBA's)
>
>
>Mike Kohut
>soon to become DBA
>NorthwesTel
>Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada