Edwin Uy wrote:
> Just want your 2 cents thoughts on this pls if u don't mind . are DBAs
> nowadays involved with designing the tables from scratch, from
> normalizing/denormalizing, determining what should my primary keys be,
> what tables should be created and named etc. . thought the
> developer/designer should be the one involved with that while DBAs
> advised on indexes for performance purposes and users/permissions for
> security purposes .


Mike Brenner wrote:
In with large overhead budgets, there is money to have
a large number of optional separation of concerns, such
as separating DBAs from developers. This would be
wasteful on a developmental system. It only makes
sense when there is a separate production system,
in which case, you would probably assign your best
developer to be the DBA. Only when the DBA tasks
(particularly backing up the data) become so large
that they take up more than 25 percent of that
developer's time should you consider hiring a
separate DBA.


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