Re: Comparisons of TCA between Oracle and SQL Server

Walt wrote:
>
> The most interesting graph:
>
> Study participants reported that on average a database
> administrator could manage more than 30 Microsoft SQL Server
> 2005 databases, while Oracle 10g implementations required one
> DBA per 10 databases. On average, the annual cost for
> administration is $2,847 per year per database for Microsoft
> SQL Server 2005 and $10,206 per year per database for Oracle
> 10g. That's a savings of more than 350% in annual costs per
> database for the Microsoft platform.
>
> One wonders if the authors understand that the term "database" as used
> by SQL Server is equivalent to the term "schema" in Oracle. For
> instance, I only admin one Oracle production database (mostly I'm a
> developer), but it has over 30 schemas.

Given that the actual survey talks about database servers rather than databases per se, I think that its entirely possible that they know the difference.

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Niall Litchfield
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