Re: Logical DBA needed

Is it the same as a Data Architect? we have one of those. It was a very useful facility when we did the big conversion from Cobol = C-isam files to informix. Someone else did all the hard work. Still useful now as it gives me someone to pick on and terrify. It was a manager accustomed to Oracle that put the position in place here = now you mention it. I have a theory,=20 Oracle is so time-consuming to manage that the poor old physical DBA has = got no time to be logical. So they have to hire someone else. I would be the last one to suggest that close proximity to Oracle might = have destroyed the poor beggars *ability* to be logical. rgds =20 Peter Tashkoff <tashkop@iname.com> Zespri International Limited Std Disclaimers Apply All rights reserved. No party may use this document to vilify another. Zespri New Zealand Kiwifruit, The World's Finest >>> "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> 24/03/98 03:42:12 >>> Na. That's a mainframey/Oracle-y concept that the physical DBA is in=20 charge of the engine and disks and configuration and tuning while the=20 logical DBA is in change of database/table design, index specification,=20 and query optimization. Mainframey shops seem to think that DBAs are=20 either too dumb or too busy to do both jobs well. I've never been sure=20 which. I met an Oracle Physical DBA and Logical DBA from some bank=20 several years ago at a Sybase training class and they explained it to=20 me. The Informix and Sybase DBAs at the class had no clue but the=20 other Oracle people all nodded their heads in understanding. Art S. Kagel