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Arun
The key issue is what will Oracle be doing for the $4K/month? Just monitoring whether your database is up? For how many hours per day? If that is all they are doing, a Perl script that pages you can do that.
Typically the junior DBA will be doing a lot more than monitoring the database. Like many of the routine tasks we all do. My experience with services like you describe is that if you want them to do any other tasks, that is additional money. Plus you may have to pay travel & lodging for someone to drop in for you to explain the requirements.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:59 PM
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Hi.
Manager and myself were debating over this issues for quite few days now....
We were planning to hire a junior DBA, but Oracle Sales repersentatives are justifying us that we dont need one, as they can provide 24x7 DBA support for $4K per month which works out to be $48k per year, lot cheaper than hiring a DBA.
Anybody have any experience with this type of support.
Would like to hear from your experiences.
-Arun.
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