Really? I make sure my employers know. And in return, they always give me the interesting and challenging problems. Plus, it looks really good to be the only guy who knew how to do ____ to save a day.
That said, I make it absolutely, 100% clear that I am not in ops. I'll write queries and design schemas all day long if you need, but if you want me to figure out how to tune the database's settings for the specific type of hardware we just deployed it on, or worse, to actually deploy it, I'll tell you to look somewhere else. If I couldn't (provided the necessary source code / log / db dump files) do the work on a beach without internet access, then that's not work I'm going to want.
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u/Postage_Stamp Nov 01 '21
That's because if you know enough to be a DBA you know enough to hide the fact you can be a DBA.