RE: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

From: kkennedy <kkennedy_at_firstpoint.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:33:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0046ED1E.20020529133331@fatcity.com>

A company here in Portland separates their DBA staff into Production Support and Application DBA groups.

The production DBAs are concerned with infrastructure, hardware, backups, database upgrades and everything else that is (more or less) independent of the software application.

The application DBAs are specialists on the data model and the software package using the database. They perform tuning and first line developer/user support.

The model does not appear to be very effective. I certainly would not recommend it.

Kevin Kennedy
First Point Energy Corporation

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We are having this debate. What is a 'Production DBA'? Right now all of the DBAs do some of everything. In an effort to focus more DBA time on infrastructure, damagement is floating the idea of Production and Applications DBAs. The DBA group has loosely translated this into the group that is always on-call and the group that gets their weekends off.

I would appreciate some input from those of you who are Production DBAs.

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Pete Barnett
Lead Database Administrator
The Regence Group
pnbarne_at_regence.com

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