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Regards,
I remember having read a few months ago about a company the boss of
which, Larry E., was claiming running on two servers and four databases
... I think they have armies of DBAs and support staff ...
More seriously, I know sites where a single DBA looks after 15
databases. IMHO the number of DBAs should be in proportion to the number
of developers and/or rate of new releases. In a stable environment, the
marginal cost of caring for an additional database is low.
Stephane Faroult
email: sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com
Oriole Corporation
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> Is there any sort of rule-of-thumb for how many database
> that a DBA should be expected to support? I realize
> that the answer would vary based on size of databases,
> stability, production vs. development, mission critical,
> 24/7, etc.
>
> But in general, how many databases would you think
> a DBA should be supporting if you divide the total
> number of databases in an organization by the number
> of DBAs supporting them?
>
> How many databases do you support on average?
> What is the size of your team?
>
> Trying to get ideas for the head count of our DBA team
> here and wondering what the industry standard is.
Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 02:50:23 CDT
