I always describe it as "if I am doing my job right, my management
should be wondering why they pay me so much. The one time the fecal
matter hits the whirling breeze machine, and I fix it FAST with minimal
downtime and minimal loss of data, THEN they understand the costs
involved"
these are the same people who will say "oh, I don't need a backup
server, and I don't need to waste time/money on extra disks or keeping
a standby database or doing backups, because my RAID 5 disks will fix
themselves when there is a data loss".
this is the stuff actuaries make money on for insurance companies.
Predicting the probable loss against the cost of doing business.
- Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> Good point and then there is
> -tuning
> -stress testing and monitoring - getting "relevant" info
> -database cloning
> -ArcSDE and GIS databases
>
> However, a good Oracle and other developer friend of mine with 20
> years in
> the business was told that she was going to be replaced by someone
> from
> another country who would be paid 1/2 her salary and no experience.
> In
> answer to the question about the 20 years experience they said "oh
> well".
>
> Oracle OCP DBA
>
>
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>
>
> see if those "data administrators" can recover a trashed database in
> the middle of the night....
>
>
> --- Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> > While I was away at the IOUG conference our "logical" data admin.
> > group went
> > to Orlando for a big Data Admin. conference. The one thing they
> said
> > when
> > they got back was: "The only difference between a physical DBA and
> a
> > data
> > administrator is the physical DBA carries a beeper."
> >
> > Now I am leaving to soak my head in a vat of Cyanide.
> >
>
>
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