On 3/27/07, Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com> wrote:
>
> We have just had this split and the
> battle we're fighting is that we don't hear about anything until it's
> ready to go into production. We get emails like, "Project X is ready to
> go into production, please have the database ready for us tomorrow."
>
> Our response is, "What is project X? What are the servers? Is there a
> DR requirement? What is the size, what is the expected growth, and
> incidentally the firewall ports aren't opened for us to access the
> server so you're going to have to wait a lot longer than 'tomorrow'."
>
This can be mitigated on the DBA side simply by having a regularly
scheduled meeting to keep all sides apprised of what is going on.
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Jared Still
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Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 17:13:00 CDT
