Not even a guitarist?

Firstly, you seem to think that only the musicians are important in a band. Wrong!

Secondly, you seem to think that the DBA is the most important person in a company. Also wrong!

I am a person who wears both DBA and developer hats (and the two are distinct although often performed by the same person). We are here talking about the DBA role only, not a DBA/developer.

But anyway, I see now why you disagree: You think only guitarists (at the very least) and singers (or even only the performers on stage) are important to music and DBAs should be equated to only these most exalted people and it's an insult to equate them to a lowly sound engineer.

Try these links. You might find them enlightening:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Kramer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Johns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Guthrie_(record_producer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Ann_Jones

Or indeed anybody in the lists of engineers of note on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineer

You obviously haven't any understanding of how integral and essential these people are to the music that has enriched your life.

Not even a guitarist indeed. As an amateur guitarist myself I find that insulting.

And I maintain my point: A DBA needs to be reliable but behind the scenes. The customer (the audience) shouldn't know they're there because the only time they do is when support is explaining to the customer why they've lost all their data ( because the numpty DBA deleted it all).