Re: What is a "database"?

[Bob Buchanan <bobbyb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, one function of a DBA I haven't seen is to monitor and add views
(indexes[access paths]) to improve performance of frequently run
queries.  Yes, DBAs for Oracle or Informix or SQL Server also administer
security and maintain/service the software, and they have to recover
stuff when their systems crash. (which they do with a little too much
frequency for my taste!)
-Bob Buchanan

Danny.Jahr@lawson.com wrote:
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> Are you saying da - ta base or day - ta base?
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> Other platforms need administrators to service the software that runs the
> database(day-ta).
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> AS/400 database administrators do everything but.
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> Dan Jahr
> AS/400 Analyst
> Lawson Software
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> boothm@earth.goddard.edu on 12/28/99 09:43:46 PM
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> It is becoming clear to me that I don't know what a database is.  I'd
> thought it was the base of data that an organization accumulates, but now
> I hear people speak of being a database administrator and there seems to
> be clumps of these people around non-AS/400 machines.  What is it they do?
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