Re: ORACLE DBA'S PER INSTANCE???

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:19:20 GMT
Message-ID: <3DDA6481.E7AD3EF8@exesolutions.com>

Ed Blondin wrote:

> I am working for a company that is trying to determine how many DBA's
> should we reasonably have for a large environment (1000 different
> instances). There is no one answer here and different instances take
> different amounts of work. I was just trying to see where we fit in the
> DBA arena. We currently have a ratio of about 22 instances per DBA. We
> have no idea if there is an industry norm or if we have more or less
> instances per DBA. Can anyone help?

Roughly speaking 10-20 depending on how DBA duties are defined and to what extent good development practices such as code reviews and independent QA are followed.

Without quality development methodology ... one can be too many.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Nov 19 2002 - 10:19:20 CST