I'm not sure where people are getting this idea from. DBA != "Guy who works with relational databases." If you have a sufficiently large amount of data and/or a

I'm not sure where people are getting this idea from. DBA != "Guy who works with relational databases." If you have a sufficiently large amount of data and/or a sufficiently high amount of requests for that data, you will eventually need someone to manage your data(base| store) and the accompanying cluster. Edit: Or, now the programmer is the DBA, and he still requires the skillset a DBA.