RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

From: Richard Ji <richard.ji_at_mobilespring.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:47:44 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00566860.20030311104744@fatcity.com>

A simple num of databases to DBA ratio is quite meaningless. You need to take into consideration of at least the following: o Size of the database, transaction volume. What kind of up time your database

   needs to provide.
o Complexity of the database and application which run on top of it.

   Number of objects, tables, stored procedures.    Is there replication, partitioning, object types, RAC/OPS, etc involved? o Does the DBA also do some SA work, or development work or design etc. o How frequent is your development cycle.

I am sure others will have lots of things to attribute. But you can't just say I have NNN number of databases and therefore need NN number of DBAs.

Richard Ji

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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:59 AM
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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.

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