RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-29 Thread April Wells
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

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
>-realizing that marketing people are a different species >-that will never know their needs in advance. Amen brother, Amen -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ranganath You are getting some excellent responses to your que

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
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

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread Webber Valerie H
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

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
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

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
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