This question got migrated to DBA by a moderator (not community vote):
The wikipedia article for DBA lists the tasks of a DBA (the list corresponds with my experience):
- Transferring Data
- Replicating Data
- Maintaining database and ensuring its availability to users
- Maintaining the data dictionary
- Controlling privileges and permissions to database users
- Monitoring database performance
- Database backup and recovery
- Database security Stop
None of these activities require interpreting execution plans or modifying queries. That is a developer's job. Yet questions about query plans are now apparently force-migrated.
A few of the better DBA's (certainly most of the ones on the DBA SE site) can do those things. But that is not true for DBA's in general. New DBA's are not expected to debug and improve queries. That only happens when over time they grow into a developer role.
- Why is the question migrated by moderator move, not the community?
- What is the criterium for when a question is so far in DBA territory that it no longer has a place on Stack Overflow?