Oracle-L: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

From: Grant Allen <grant_at_towersoft.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:00:06 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005663EE.20030311090006@fatcity.com>

> >>> chuckh_at_softhome.net 03/11/03 09:59AM >>>
> 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.

It fluctates pretty wildly for us depending on the R&D effort at any one point in time. But it's not unusual for us to have 50:3, though the 50 are of mixed types (Oracle, DB2, SQLServer etc.)

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)

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