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  • Jack Corbett (11/17/2011)


    To get back to the original question, Jason and Remi :-P.

    I think we need more information about what your job duties are supposed to be before anyone can really say where you should be.

    If you are an operational DBA, meaning mostly backups, monitoring, patches, applying best practices, security, then I think you should be in the Server & Network group, but not necessarily a domain admin.

    If you are doing more development (sp's, database design, etc...) and T-SQL tuning then you should be more closely aligned with the application development group.

    If you have to do it all, then you really should be your own group and report directly to the head of the IT department.

    These are just my opinions and how I'd want to be aligned based on duties. Ideally I'd like to be in the last option.

    Don't forget the work from home dba. Part of their duties is to do the dishes.;-)

    Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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