Re: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

They conveniently forget that most of the tasks of many DBAs consist in responding to requests from developers that need to be actioned immediately, not via telephone or e-mails. But then again, their "superior" support staff should be able to "proactively" predict these? ;-)

Sounds like another attempt at the old model of the "one size fits all".

Of course some DBAs have been doing remote admin for years, and at a cost that beats theirs by a country mile. But that's another story.

BTW, it's not only ORACLE that is doing this. IBM/GSA is into it as well in a BIG way in Australia.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den
----- Original Message -----

> My boss just received a cold call from Oracle that he let me listen
in on.
> They have a new push on for their i-dba support package. For just a
little
> more money (they did not define little), "we will replace your dba's
with
> our superior support team that will monitor your database 24x7 and
> proactively eliminate problems. This will allow you to redesign you
office
> to offload these cumbersome DBA tasks and allow your workers to do
other
> things. You will never have another database problem." I felt
good when
> my boss indicated that we had no base problems but based on this, I
guess we
> will have to become sqlserver DBAs or <gasp> developers... :)
>

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