Donna,

  Allbase does require more maintenance (generally speaking) than
Image, and one of my major customers actually has a couple of DBA's
devoted to Allbase (and yes they need them dedicated!).  Unlike
Image where you can probably get by without a DBA for most day
to day things, you really do need to have someone very familiar
with Allbase to keep things running in top condition.  Whether
you need someone dedicated to it or not really depends on the
number and size of the DBE's.

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  One thing that can help tremendously is to get DBAdvisor/SQL
from LeeTech.  It performs many of the types of functions Image
people are used to with products such as Adager and DBGeneral,
but for Allbase.  You'll find that table reorgs and the like are
much more "palitable" then trying to use ISQL.

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Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
Allaire Alliance Partner (in this case, LeeTech VAR :)
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Donna wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Donna Garverick
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 3:48 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] allbase dba
>
>
> i've got an odd problem (of course, this is longs...what
> else would i have? :-)....  on my production box, i've got
> several *large* allbase databases.  we don't seem to have
> sufficient(ly willing?) in-house expertise to be a dba for
> allbase.  soooo, for you folks that are running allbase --
> do you have a designated dba?  (is allbase that comparable
> to other relational databases?)  if you don't have a dba,
> how are you handling maintenance issues?  ('taint no such
> thing (unless i'm really confused (hehe)) as
> adager/dbgeneral for allbase)  i think i'm also asking about
> something beyond basic maintenance...maybe more along the
> lines of an 'analyst' (hmmm, do you think that's what the
> 'a' stands for in 'dba'? hehehehe (tm, art bahrs)).
> - d
>
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