RE: Are you angry DBA?

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:51:15 -0500
Message-ID: <FB5D3CCFCECC2948B5DCF4CABDBE66971FFBAE@QTEX1.qg.com>

So if your devs want the DBA role in your production DBs, you give it to them???  

If devs hurt the production DB bad enough, I have to fix it thru DB recovery. How then is it not the my job to force rules and restrictions? Granted, there is some leeway of grandfathered schemas/objects/code, but that comes from a lack of ROI (e.g. to remove a "potentially dangerous" priv from a schema like "DELETE ANY TABLE", there's no way I can ask the department to spend 6 months rewriting apps while our backlog grows for no discernable benefit to the company). But to blanketly say that it's not the DBA's job to enforce rules and restrictions is a lack of accountability at best.  

My $.02,
Rich    

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Marquez, Chris
	Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:28 AM
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	Subject: RE: Are you angry DBA?
	 
	[snip]
	 
	It is my database to support, backup, and make available and
avoid personal mistakes while doing so.
	It is NOT my database to force rules and restrictions.
	It is NOT my database to block all bad code from and stop all
data loss from.
	People *will* "hurt" the database...I just need to be ready to

fix what is within my control.          

        Anybody feel differently?          

	Chris Marquez
	Oracle DBA
	

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