A shift is underway among top database professionals, where DBAs and devs are focusing not just on their database silo -- but on how the database enables "end-to-end" applications. A report from Evans Data Corp. has found that more than half of all DBAs are working with web services, XML, middleware and even application performance tasks.

Evans surveyed more than 400 database developers for enterprises and mid-sized companies for its Winter 2005 Database Development Survey, released last month.