Re: Why an organization would need an enterprise DB team

From: Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:44:52 -0700
Message-ID: <bf46380703280844x60b69876lbd31dc302bf11a61@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/28/07, Dennis Williams <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> To me, the ideal situation would be to have an enterprise DBA group whose
> members are rotated to sit among developers.
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Ideal, but difficult to do.

If the development effort is significant, there is a lot of knowledge that the outgoing DBA will have that the incoming DBA will not have.

Nothing you can do about it either. One DBA can brief the other, but there is no substitute for experience.

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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Received on Wed Mar 28 2007 - 10:44:52 CDT