Re: Logical DBA needed

Art S. Kagel (kagel@bloomberg.com) wrote: <snip> : Na. That's a mainframey/Oracle-y concept that the physical DBA is in : charge of the engine and disks and configuration and tuning while the : logical DBA is in change of database/table design, index specification, : and query optimization. Mainframey shops seem to think that DBAs are : either too dumb or too busy to do both jobs well. I've never been sure : which. I met an Oracle Physical DBA and Logical DBA from some bank : several years ago at a Sybase training class and they explained it to : me. The Informix and Sybase DBAs at the class had no clue but the : other Oracle people all nodded their heads in understanding. There's a reason that Oracle needs both a physical and a logical DBA. :) The physical DBA is not logical and there are many times that being logical is counterproductive in an Oracle environment, so it takes two to administer the database. Note that some researchers have postulated that a combination of a sane and an insane DBA will achieve the same ends and will be more fun to watch to boot. joe (couldn't help it) lumbley (couldn't help it) : Art S. Kagel -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, or ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------