Okay, I've never seen the first kind of DB op. The places I've worked with dedicated DB people were a combination of the first and second types you listed. Th

Okay, I've never seen the first kind of DB op. The places I've worked with dedicated DB people were a combination of the first and second types you listed. That situation would explain the Stripe outage, though. TBH, it seems odd to call the first one a "database operator" instead of an IT admin.