RE: databases per dba

Always heard that the best DBA is the one that can sit at his/her desk and drink coffee and read the paper with feet propped up. Means he's on top of it and has everything running smoothly.

Much better that type than one that is constantly running around putting out fires.....

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Michael McMullen Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:57 AM
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Subject: Re: databases per dba

We have 17 and it's just me. I work in a large organization where capital
expenditure is usually not a problem. Harder to hire a person than buy a new
server. Hence there is usually one server per database. Apps that are stable
and have no development, I might log into the database once every six months. So there is really only a few databases that take up all my time. It
seems like the more development/ever changing volumes there is on a database, the more it takes up my time. A static database requires very little maintenance.

• Original Message ----- From: "Khemmanivanh, Somckit" <somckit.khemmanivanh_at_weyerhaeuser.com> To: <DMcGibbon_at_tollnz.co.nz>; "Oracle List" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:37 PM Subject: RE: databases per dba

>
> Just curious, for those that have so many DBs per DBA -- how to you
> effectively support them all in 1 day? Automation is going to help but
> there are still issues that arise...i.e. performance issues, bugs, bad
> change mgmt practices, users just being users, etc...=3D20
>
>
> Thanks!=3D20

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