Re: Can DBA Jobs be Outsourced ???

> > Can you explain why " the DBA has to be present at the location to do
the
> > maintenance work" ?

To identify IO bottlenecks by looking at disk drive LEDs in server room ;)

But seriously - you can't do software development completely overseas - you have to have at least analysts, who are facing the customers and doing interviews. Yeah, sure you can do those over phone or e-mail as well, but you'll spend 10 times more time on it that way & lose in quality of analysis. A simple programmer on the other hand, will get the specification and return code according to this spec. This can be done anywhere.

I think that DBA's are somewhere between the analysts and simple programmers in that sense. Disaster recovery for example shouldn't require a DBA to be on-site (ideally, it shouldn't require DBA anyway, an operator or sysadmin should be enough, because complete, detailed and tested recovery plans should exist in mission-critical environments anyway). Also simple tasks like monitoring, user/database/tablespace/whatever creation can easily be done off-site.
But when you're planning for building and migration to your next-generation Enterprise infrastructure, then again, you have to get and syncronize information with a lot of different people, thus you got to be onsite.

So, everything is possible to do offsite, thanks to phones and internet, but you just won't be efficient that way.

Tanel. Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 16:52:36 CDT