The Voice of the DBA Who's At Fault?

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Jun 10, 2009 Who's At Fault?

If your software fails, who's at fault? I'm not sure I could get three developers, DBAs, or system administrators in the same room to agree on what went wrong. Even at the same company! At different companies I'm sure they wouldn't agree. And if a lawyer gets involved, I'm not sure the truth is ever discovered.

I'm really not sure what the truth is in some cases. Things have gotten so complex that often I think even if everything worked as expected, if every API was solid, we'd still have "bugs" from these complicated interactions that no one had thought of between the various components and parts of the system.

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