Re: Is It Necessary To Include A DBA in the Administrator's Group?
From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/25/03
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From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:19:49 -0500
You will find that in a lot of larger companies the DB Admins are not just
admins for SQL Server, they also Admin DB2, Oracle, etc. They are Database
experts NOT OS experts. Even in some companie where people just do SQL
Server they still may not be very good OS level Admins.
It can actually be dangerous to just let someone who is unfamiliar change
anything they think to change. If you were a non-DBA but responsible for the
functioning of the OS of the SQL machine would you give out Admin level
access to that machine to someone who could change something that could
affect its functioning that you may not know about? As a general rule, it is
easier to fix problems you caused than what someone else caused. It is easy
to damage a system in a such a way that someone else who has to troubleshoot
may have to take hours or days to figure out what happened.
In the best of all possible worlds, every great DBA would be a great Server
Admin, in the wide range of folks I have met I haven't found that to be the
case. Usually you have a good DBA who is tolerable on the Server or a good
Server admin who is taking a swing at being a DBA. It is very tough to be an
expert in both sides of that fence.
-- Joe Richards www.joeware.net --- "Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message news:3e329541.1889620310@news.easynews.com... > Administering SQL and administering the server are two different > things. In our situation, the DBA's also admin the servers, but we > don't have a separate network group and database group. Personally, > I'm not sure I'd work long at a company that was that territorial, but > in larger installations it may be necessary. > > Jeff
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