Re: Database Design

Sometimes the analyst is the DBA is the programmer. A lot depends on the organization your working with and their philosophy (and/or budget - which often dictates philosophy to a degree). If you have all three resources and are asking what to do in a perfect world.... I don't know, I've never been there. --- "Andy Jiang" <ajiang@mail.lumley.co.nz> > wrote: >Hi everyone > >I would ask a very general question about DBA role here. > >I am not quite sure what is exactly DBA's job regarding database design. Is >there any cut edge between jobs of business analyst , programmer and DBA? >Most topics covered here are about informix database itself. > >Giving a new project from beginning, what will a DBA start with? Involving >business analysis? Creating databse, tables, primary key, foreign key, >constraint and index? > >Thanks in advance. > >Regards > >Andy Jiang == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net