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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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This may not a full time position for any one system long term but probably will be fulltime during the development stage. Once in maintenance cycle the commitment for the application DBA could level off to 50% or 60%. However, looking at Banner, they have 3 people who serve this purpose -- the system architects. They have deep database knowledge but are also strong 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.