Title: RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA
DITTO!
... I personally like it when they come screaming to me (I am the
"production" dba for the most part) that the test database is all messed
up... couldn't be them... they haven't touched their code... all th
>-realizing that marketing people are a different species
>-that will never know their needs in advance.
Amen brother, Amen
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Ranganath
You are getting some excellent responses to your que
Title: RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA
>-realizing that marketing people are a different species
>-that will never know their needs in advance.
... and don't actually care what *our* needs are ...
Raj
Title: RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA
I agree 100%. I am fighting this battle as we speak. Many Duhvelopers think they can do it all until something goes wrong then guess who they call to bail them out. Then Damagement is breathing down your neck to get it fixed when you
Ranganath
You are getting some excellent responses to your question (which I consider
very "on topic"). We had a good discussion on this list previously. I went
to Google and entered fatcity production dba and was able to pick up the
thread.
As to your question of OLTP vs. DSS situations, I thin
It's not quite so "hard and fast"
I'm considered a development DBA here. I design the schemas, the
database layouts, the initialization parameters that are set etc
I work with a hosting company to manage the staging and production
databases. I create scripts for ALL changes to any of these
enviro
A "development DBA" is a developer who wants to design the schemas his/her
application will rely on. I prefer calling them application designers,
because that's what they are. Sometimes you have another role, that of
"Application Administrator." This second group is for larger applications
that