Gayatri , I think you have a point and try to discount the DBA role in a working environment and try to say that he/she do nothing and get paychecks. Is that right? Yes, May be in calm days DBA mostly monitoring, Coaching developers and babysitting the Instances but when the system crash someday then everybody panic and have no freaking clue then you will kiss the DBA hands to resolve the issues. He is an invisible person but at the time of crisis you are helpless and he is the most visible and most useful person. No offence.