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Not a contract wrangler. Just someone who knows the value of not
burning out technical staff. If you are providing quality 7x24 support
you need enough warm bodies so people can go on vacation, attend
training, and generally have a life. Otherwise, people burn out and
your have high staff turnover. As for the 30 DBA's - we cover, as a
team, 5 locations in 4 states. The application mix is 60% home grown
applications, 20% vendor apps from vendors without a clue about how
Oracle works, and 20% solid vendor applications. Everyone gets to
attend training to stay current, have a predictable schedule, and
turnover is very low. No one has left the team in 3 - 4 years. I have
done the "superman" 80 hour week, work every weekend, take the laptop,
cell phone, and pager on vacation, DBA thing in the past. Not what I
call a quality life.
Mark...
On 23 Feb 2002 08:29:17 -0600, hause011_at_garnet.tc.umn.edu (Steven Hauser) wrote:
>How many DBAs can dance on the head of a pin.
>
>30 DBAs, HAH. Hire 4 for a couple little instances? HAH I say.
>Must be a Deloitte or Andersen or EDI contract wrangler telling you that.
Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 17:25:23 CST