Re: Justifying a new DBA position

It sounds like you already have your justification. You say you are seeing impact to your development work because of the DBA time spent, as well as concerns about supporting your production users.

What your manager will need is to have you QUANTIFY that impact. Business decisions are made not on feelings and concerns but on verifiable data.

Measure how much time you are spending on DBA tasks, estimate the impact to the production users of not having full time support, estimate the impact to your future users of delays in receiving their applications.

Once a business case is made, a business decision can be made.

• Ron Olcott, President
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In article <6n16j0$18n0$1_at_news.missouri.edu>,   "Kenneth Murphy" <murphyk_at_umsystem.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I am one of 2 programmers in my department that are working on developing
> various database applications on the web using, OWAS 2.1 & 3.0, PL/SQL and
> ORACLE 7 & 8.
>
> We have one production instance on an RS6000 running AIX, Oracle 7.3 and
> OWAS 2.1.
> We have one production instance on a Dell PowerEdge running NT, Oracle 8 and
> OWAS 3.0.
> We have one development instance on a GateWau E-3100 running NT, Oracle 7.3
> and OWAS 2.1.
>
> There is a sys-admin for the RS6000, but he only is the admin for the OS.
>
> We currently have 3 production applications averaging between 500-800 users.
> The data-models average around 30 tables per application. The data for the
> applications is small around a hundered megs. We will increase that number
> by 1 or 2 a year. Some of the applications we develop we house elsewhere
> and thus don't need to support them once they are built.
>
> As of late, the DBA duties required to manage our existing applications and
> their hardware/software environment is sereously impacting our ability to
> maintain our previous development rate for new application.
>
> I am trying to convince my boss of the need for a dedicated DBA to manage
> existing applications and the development evironment to allow the developers
> to focus on development.
>
> Does anyone have any good information that would aid me in convincing him of
> the need to either add a DBA or re-assign one of us programmers to that role
> and then live with half the production rate. We know how to do a good job as
> DBA's, we just don't have the time to keep up on development deadlines and
> do a good job of keep the production apps happy, safe and secure.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kenneth Murphy
> Office of Social & Economic Data Analysis
> University of Missouri - Columbia
> murphyk_at_umsystem.edu or 573-884-8794
>
>

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