Foreword
What skills set the database administrator (DBA) apart from other technologists? Of the many responsibilities laid upon a DBA, which cannot be performed by someone else? Adding database accounts? Creating tables and indexes? Installing and configuring databases? Optimizing the database and the applications that access and manipulate it?
All of these tasks are regularly performed by people who do not consider themselves database administrators. They consider themselves to be programmers/analysts, to be application developers, or to be managers and directors, and they do all these things just to be able to move forward with their own jobs. Most application developers know how to run the Oracle Universal Installer—it's just another graphical ...
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