Comments on: Do we need Smarter Developers or Smarter DBAs? http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/do-we-need-smarter-developers-or-smarter-dbas/ An Insight into Oracle Database Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning Sun, 12 May 2013 23:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: neerajbhatia http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/do-we-need-smarter-developers-or-smarter-dbas/#comment-96 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:06:01 +0000 http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-96 Mandeep,

Thanks for the reading.

I didn’t mean to say that DBA born with practical experience. But its very unlikely (at least I’ve seen this) that DBA doesn’t have any prior experience because while working for SPs either they work on L1 support or they start with something else and over the run they become a DBA.

Neeraj

]]> By: neerajbhatia http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/do-we-need-smarter-developers-or-smarter-dbas/#comment-95 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:01:17 +0000 http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-95 Jeffrey,

Thanks for your comments.

I agree with you that it’s not a universal truth. (probably I should have said “Most of the times …” instead of “all”). My intention was to discuss that most of the times it happens. I happened to me and to my whole network of friends who call me for technical consulting and while tuning a particular SQL when I ask functional questions they get blank face. Then I say, you should report these top resource-consuming SQLs to developers/application support teams because they can do more in these situations.

Cheers,
Neeraj

]]> By: Jeffrey Kemp http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/do-we-need-smarter-developers-or-smarter-dbas/#comment-92 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:03:11 +0000 http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-92 I’d disagree with this blanket statement: “all Oracle database users and developers argue that it’s a DBA who is responsible for application performance tuning” – this is quite untrue. Maybe a lot of users/developers might argue that, but it’s certainly not universal. For both my current and former clients, performance was the responsibility of (a) enterprise architects, (b) system designers, (c) developers, as well as DBAs.

]]> By: Mandeep http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/do-we-need-smarter-developers-or-smarter-dbas/#comment-91 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:09:00 +0000 http://neerajbhatia.wordpress.com/?p=348#comment-91 Well… good one but just wondering how unlikely of developer who is just new passed out or came from some other world, the DBA is a guy who born with experience in hand :-)

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