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Re: Oracle licence question

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:20:21 -0800
Message-ID: <44020D85.7030505@comcast.net>


Tony Rogerson wrote:
> Ok, I'll take your original salary posting (and associated search) as a
> general mistake rather than trying to bias the stats by making a general
> search on Oracle and a more selective one for SQL Server DBA.
>
> To explain, you posted these and the figures from them...
>
> Oracle - http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/oracle.do
> SQL Server - http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/sql%20server%20dba.do
>
> The search criteria you used is a give away because it's on the end of the
> URL.
>
> Note: you have done a general search on 'ORACLE' which includes all the
> lower paid dev and testing jobs, alternatively you searched on 'SQL SERVER
> DBA' which gives just the more skilled DBA jobs rather than the dev jobs -
> so, you should search 'ORACLE DBA' against 'SQL SERVER DBA' which is what I
> have posted, and the salary different is around 20% for permie and more for
> contractors.
>
> So the modified URL you want is...
>
> Oracle - http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/oracle%20dba.do
> SQL Server - http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/sql%20server%20dba.do
>
>

>>>DBA...
>>>      Oracle Min/Max         £40,073 £45,219
>>>      SQL Server Min/Max £36,128 £40,846

>
>

Thanks for the catch. So the math becomes

		Min	MAX
Oracle		40,073	45,219
SQL Server	36,128	40,846
Difference	10.92%	10.71%

Pretty much an 11% differential. I still don't think this meets your claim of being " a lot higher than SQL Server ones". Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 14:20:21 CST

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