[Dbix-class] How I hate (some) DBAs

[Dan Horne]

There's no real advice from a technical point-of-view. Your DBA is being a
petty bureaucrat beacuse he can. It just makes him feel superior, but he's
just an arrogant prat

Dan
Ian said:
> Hi
> We are just coming to the end of our development with a (very) tight
> timescale and pretty much on-time due to the use of DBIC and Catalyst.
>
> Development was on MySQL but someone has now decided we have to run on
> Oracle. OK, no problem we thought, it should migrate over with very few
> issues since we are using DBIC.
>
> However, the Oracle DBA has thrown his teddy out of the pram and refuses
> to accept that DBIC can generate efficient code, or code that he can
> inspect, and insists that we use an 'API' that he will show us how to
> create to use pl/sql statements. From what I have seen of it, it will
> take me back about 10 years to where I was trying to generate my own DB
> abstraction layer before I learned about CDBI and DBIC. Argghh.
>
> I have pointed out to the project manager that this will break
> everything we have written so far. We will have to manually write all
> the code to do the heavy lifting and shifting that DBIC does for us so
> easily. It is likely to take us at least twice as long as it has already
> taken us to redevelop the whole application to write the new database
> abstraction layer and modify our application to use it.
>
> Yes I can output the generated SQL from DBIC, but this does not satisfy
> our DBA.
>
> How do other developers cope with these people? Are there any DBAs on
> here that embrace DBIC that can give me any advice?
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
>
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