Ron - As a solo DBA shop, I can't be much help except to point out that most
of what I've heard involves the DBAs specializing between production work
and development work. Some DBAs administer the production databases, others
work with the developers. This also seems to suit the personality
In a previous life, I worked at WilTel (very well managed), which became
WorldCom (so-so), which became MCI WorldCom (no comment). I started out in
WilTel's Engineering Department which (wisely) kept all of IT operations
separate and independent from the grand and glorious (and huge) company IT
Ron,
I think you are starting at a good place.
Production DBA's worry about different things than Development DBA's.
Mostly they are concerned with (in priority order) Backup schedules
Validations (make sure they are working), disk usage (make sure there is
enough) and on-going tuning issues.
