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Our basic distinction is between production and development. Production
DBAs carry pagers, are on call 24/7, and get the big bucks. They also
specialize in recovery and (some) tuning. Development DBAs are kinda split
three ways --- physical database development (create new development,
training and testing instances and databases), logical database development
(data architects, working with fancy tools), and development team support
(work with the developers to try to keep them from doing silly things).
The workload is not even but neither is the pay.
"Vergara,
Michael (TEM)" To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
<mvergara cc:
@guidant.com> Subject: Multiple DBs - Balancing Act
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This question is for folks who are part of a team that manages multiple databases and multiple platforms.
How do you balance the load among your team? We're struggling with this concept right now as we're about to add another DBA to the group. We've considered such things as quantity (how many DBs does each DBA handle), importance (to the company - each DBA has 'n' databases, load (this DB is used 'n' times as much as another one, experience (of the DBA...do we put a UNIX-familiar person in charge of DBs on Windows?) and on and on. But then we stumble on quantifying the terms - importance, load, etc. And we have had some DBs that we considered 'small' become a major PITA when we weren't looking! We just signed a deal making Oracle our DB of choice for the next several years, so we could see an explosion of stuff.
So I'm asking...how do you do it?
Thanks,
Mike
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