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I would also note that DBAs can be differentiated into four groups:
1. Individuals that maintain it both as physical equipment (i.e. computer system) and as a set of software products (i.e. the database system, operating system, and associated applications).
2. Individuals that only maintain the equipment, typically network administrators or system administrators, but not necessarily familiar with database management.
3. Individuals that only perform database and application management.
4. Individuals that perform it as a function of software development. DBBell 22:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
It seems to me that this article needs a section mentioning that in smaller companies, the trend to move away from heavyweight mainframe operating systems and their accompanying databases toward open source, widely documented, small footprint operating systems (that run on a variety of hardware) and open source databases largely obviates the need for specialization in the field of database administration (a task that can be achieved via cooperation between system administrators and programmers), though i can't see a likely spot in the article to put this note - any suggestions?. Moe Aboulkheir 01:56, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Database types
I think it would be inappropriate to worry about types of databases except in terms of how they impact a DBA's duties/definition. Having been a DBA for different products and different environments, I think I will edit this article further in the future. We should relink and refer to the database articles instead of trying to define them in this article.Victortan 16:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, anything about databases that isn't specific to DBAs should be moved to the database article —Quarl (talk) 2006-03-09 18:54Z
- I'm sure it is not intentional, but there are frequent (6) references to Oracle here, and none to any other RDBMS. I added one to another RDBMS, but is it really necessary to keep namedropping Oracle? I'd prefer the article to be vendor-neutral. --Matthewleslie 01:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Buffer cache hit ratio meaningless?
It smells like ean xaggaration to me to say that the cache hit ratio is a meaningless statistic. The language should probably be made more balanced. I'd also be interested in a reference that tells more about that claim.
[edit] "inappropriate" sections
The following sections, Definition of Database, Recoverability, Integrity, Security, Availability and Performance seems to be inappropriate for this article. These are issues which should be (and, in most cases are already) discussed in other articles. These sections should either be pruned (f.ex Definition of Database), or rewritten to focus on the DBA's responsibility in relation to the different tasks. Jerazol 05:38, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
I agree with this, this article is about a DBA, not the above topics. --Twyford 11:37, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New user box
I wasn't sure where this may go. So, I thought I'd put it here for now or until someone moves it to a more appropriate place.
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