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Re: Oracle DBA(24x7) from Oracle

From: Peter Barnett <regdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:38:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00581F6F.20030415143836@fatcity.com>


I worked for a plant that was being moth balled. The systems were almost all shut down except for accounting, HR and email for the sales force. We negotiated a contract to maintain these services. A couple of months later, some work was required on the accounting system. Their consultant was going to be a two day minimum plus travel and expenses.

I fixed the problem in an evening, billed them an outrageous charge for my inconvenience and still saved them a couple of thousand dollars.

These things can work. Just work out all of the details and expenses in advance. There is more to maintaining a database than patches. What about application support? What about application upgrades that require DBA support? What about developer support? What about OS upgrades? Who runs interference during outages?     


Pete Barnett
Lead Database Administrator
The Regence Group
pnbarne_at_regence.com

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