How the DBA Interacts with Other Team Members

Now that you have decided to become a DBA, how will you interact with other team members such as the system administrator, network administrator, developers, and users? Many times, these relationships are hard to determine because each organization has people filling one or many different roles. Based on earlier job descriptions, however, the following sections quickly examine the types of interaction you can expect.

System Administrator and Network Administrator

A DBA's interaction with the network administrator is mostly concerned with the type of network protocols that can be used and the network address or port number that can be used for the server. If users are complaining about query times ...

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