Re: Are you angry DBA?
- From: stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:55:17 +0100
On 29/08/05, Marquez, Chris <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anybody feel differently?
>
My criteria for taking ownership of a database is the question: "Will
I get my ass kicked if this database dies/gets screwed up?"
If the answer is "No." then it's just a database I work on. If the
answer is "Yes." then it's my database and I'll stringently control it
in so far as I can. It's like how people, especially managers, seem
to get really confused about 'responsibility' and 'authority'. A lot
os managers seem that they can delegate responsibility for something
to an underling without delegating authority. What a load of BS. How
the heck can you hold someone responsible for something they didn't
have the authority to influence and you ignored their advice to use
your authority to influence it.
To get back to the original question. If I'm going to be held
responsible for something then I'm going to want to exert the
authority (directly or indirectly) I need to keep it in a reasonable
standard of health. If I don't have the authority, the control, then
I don't see how I can have the responsibility?
Sometimes all it needs is the right to ask questions. For example the
vendor of one of the packages we run demanded SYSDBA access to the
production server. I asked why. Turned out they needed to run
STATSPACK and thought that you had to be SYSDBA to do it.
Other times you need to exert a bit more control.
Stephen
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