Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

MessageDamn. Beat me to the punch. I was going to mention being a "snow quality" inspector or Blue Mountain (PA). :-)

• Original Message ----- From: Weiss, Rick To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:19 PM Subject: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

  Not mention the afternoons at Big Sky and Bridger working as a ski run quality assurance tester! ; )

  Rick Weiss

• Helena, Montana

  We know better
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:wweaver_at_rightnow.com]     Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:51     To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L     Subject: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

    We have 4 production Oracle databases and 3 DBA's.

    Of course, we have additional duties as well. I spend many afternoons out at the airport as a baggage handler for Horizon Airlines.

    --Walt Weaver
      Bozeman, Montana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio
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> We have over 400 databases, 90%+ are Oracle under various
> versions, platforms.
>
> Today have 19 DBAs. Two weeks from now there will be 17.
>
> Rightsizing to continue in the 2nd Quarter....
>
> - Kirti
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>
> We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging
> from 2 GB OLTP
> to 800 GB data warehouses. 395 devl/alpha/beta databases
> ranging in size
> from very small (1 GB) to production-sized. About 1/3 of the
> production
> databases have at least 1 (usually more) development effort
> going on at any
> given time.
>
> Most of our time (lives?) is spent just keeping things up and
> running. The
> on-call guy averages between 50 to 100 pages per week (record
> is in the
> 230-range). Tuning and testing new stuff is fairly uncommon
> - as we have
> time.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Author: Deshpande, Kirti
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