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The application DBA is needed in early design specifications so applications don't go off on a useless tangent. The person would keep an eye on database side of the application but has to be fluid fluent in the application side also. This is a resource for programmers.
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How to hire such a person? Want We want to hire 1 - 3 people. Patrick to will write a new job description, including all these things and more in the PD. This will be difficult for us because usually DBA are hard to find/hire during good economic times.
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Recharge model is one solution. Could be subscription model as well. Recharge is per hour. Subscription says whatever his the annual salary, we'll pay a percentage. No monies for resident dba application person otherwise.
Ai - Patrick to write position description for appl dbaDBA. Classification committee to review. Use this for recruitment. Hoping for P6.
Also he will add knowledge of application programming to the other DBA's job descriptions. Re-class prabhu and geeta.