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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio
Chuck
I think this is a slippery argument. It may appeal to managers but can lead to bad decisions long-term. Does anyone remember years ago when managers would measure COBOL programmers LOC (lines of code)? Just measure how many lines of code each programmer writes each day and vola! you know which are your best programmers -- right? But I would match 5 production instances against a single test instance with a group of cranky developers who are normalization bigots.
I maintain about 15 instances by myself, so by your standards I'm a real
slacker. I've tried to group applications into common instances, for ease of
maintenance and better use of system memory. Maybe I should change that
policy so I can boost my numbers ;-)
Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I'm trying to build a case for management that we need additional DBAs so I'd like to take a quick poll if I may. What is the ratio of Oracle databases to DBAs in your shop? This includes development and production databases. At our shop it's 33:1.
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