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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Splitting production and development/test at the DBA level?
Splitting of the DBA function is not that uncommon at larger concerns in
the US. Some places have infrastructure DBA and Application DBA's. The
infrastructure DBA's install the Oracle software, configure the db,
configure the listener, and monitor the db space usage and overall
performance. The application DBA creates the Oracle objects in the
system (controlled) test environment and then applies the change scripts
in production. Sometimes the Application DBA hands the (tested against
system test) scripts off to the Infrastructure DBA or a different
Application DBA to apply the changes to production. The application
DBA's are not members of the DBA group and do not have the ability to
start or stop Oracle.
How well this works is mostly a matter of having and following documented change control procedures.
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Michael Kline
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:18 PM To: Oracle-L Subject: *****SPAM***** Splitting production anddevelopment/test at the DBA level?
I've got a client that is considering splitting devl/test and production at the DBA level.
There are only about 8 Oracle folks, and that would put 6 on Production and 2 on test and there are about 70-80 databases.
This all has something to do with a Gartner paper that was some 7-8 years old.
Has anyone tried this before and what were the results?
Migrating new code forward just sounds like it will be horrible because now TWO DBA's will be involve and probably be almost totally unaware of what's coming and the like.
The strange thing is, this client is into "pools" big time where you get a DBA from the pool to work on what ever. That is pretty much how they were doing it now. Yet, being "in line" with this pools thing, they now want to make two pools and then make it so prod would have no access to devl/test and devl/test will have no access to prod. It reminds me of like WalMart type stores. "Sorry, that's not my department." It's got the DBA department quite concerned.
The paper was supposed to say this was the thing to do, and perhaps would make SOX happy.
Michael Kline
13308 Thornridge Ct
Midlothian, VA 23112
O: 804.744.1545
Fax: 804.763.0114
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Dec 13 2006 - 08:16:11 CST
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