RE: Criteria for handoff from development

Your manager is full of sh** (in technical terms). Poorly written queries are usually the problem, more so than any data model. Let me guess, he's the manager for the development team?

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

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> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [SMTP:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:45 PM
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> Subject: Criteria for handoff from development
>
> Can anyone provide some criteria of what you look for when a data model is
> handed off from production? We are starting a large development project
> and
> I lobbied management to hire a data architect. As they have talked to
> these
> people, they are getting statements such as "and then the DBA will check
> out
> the data model to make sure there won't be any performance problems". I am
> concerned about what will be expected of me and wondered how other DBAs
> handle this situation. What do you look for in a model in terms of making
> sure the performance will be good? I said that I could look at the queries
> that would be run to see how many tables would need to be joined to
> retrieve
> the data, but the manager replied that a good DBA wouldn't need to see the
> queries, should just be able to look at the model. Up until this point,
> our
> client-server design tools have tended to protect the developers from
> doing
> dumb stuff, but now in the Java world some of those safeguards.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
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