DBA Duties: Development DBA <-> Application DBA <-> System DBA

DBA Duties and Application Support Duties: Job-Description and Self-Assessment. Checklist to ensure that all 60 DBA-duties are assigned: System DBA, Development DBA and Application DBA versus Application Support If you have just a job role "DBA", but not a dedicated job role "Application DBA" those 19 duties must be explicitly assigned to either "Application Support" or to the "DBA" - otherwise they might not be executed! Detect unassigned tasks before an auditor reports them !	Pages	Personal Edition		Corporate Edition
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Summary and Scope

This toolkit for Self Assessment addresses the problem that there are many tasks which are NOT assigned - the managers think that's that done by the DBA-team, but that feels themselves as pure SYSTEM-DBA's and just ignore the duties of Development- and Application DBA's.

The Risk

Your DBA-team feels themselves as pure System DBA and typically tasks of Application DBA's are not executed. But as in your organization no dedicated Application DBA exist, you will run in long term into troubles, as many important tasks are just not executed. In case of in house development the missing Development DBA will result in production problems. This situation is not immediately obvious, it's a “ticking time bomb”. This will be detected long time later - in the optimal case you will just need a huge repair / reorganization project (for which of course neither budget nor headcount was planned) and of course a big outage will be required, or you will suffer from shortcomings until application retirement.

An increasing number of laws e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) or Basel II require external audits of IT systems. And even if in your organization everyone knows what he has to do, auditors often ask for documented evidence. But even if you are not affected by those laws, clearly documented and assigned duties, optimal validated quarterly or once per year, e.g. by an self-assessment, will help you to pass checks from internal auditors, internal QA-department or internal Revenue Assurance (RA) department.

The Solution