Re: How many DBA's?

I'm not talking about being available 7x24 ... I'm talking about an application DBA who can create tables and indexes but can't create users. And the DBA above that can create users but can't create schemas.

I'm talking agony without purpose.

Daniel Morgan

Mark wrote:

> 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 - 11:50:52 CST