Re: Help: Database Roles

Chad Laity (chad_laity@arrowintl.com) wrote: : We are trying to define the responsibilities for the technical people in : my department. : 1) What are the generic responsibilities of a Database Administrator : (DBA) throughout the industry?? : 2) What are the generice responsibilities of a Database Programmer : throughout the industry?? : Currently we have a person that is designated as the DBA. Then we have 2 : other people designated as Database Programmers. The Database : Programmers add new users, perform backups, monitor logicals logs, : monitor the database server in general, and program. The DBA solves any : "business rule" issues between the users and the Programmers. It sounds as though your database programmers are doing what would usually be considered as at least part of the DBA's job. I'd probably call it a group of assistant/dbas-programmers reporting to a supervising DBA. It makes a lot of sense, especially if you have the supervising DBA responsible for data modelling and more global issues. It can enable the programmers to be either DBA's or much better programmers because of their insights into what's happening under the hood. Joe : The above scenario does not seem to follow industry standard. Does : anyone agree? : Thank You, : Chad. : wick@fast.net : chad_laity@arrowintl.com -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------