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

From: david davis <ddoralist_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:47:50 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005668D4.20030311104750@fatcity.com>

Chuck,

I support 17 development, 2 production oracle databases, 3 DB2/MVS databases and 1 SQL Server. A coworker supports only 1 application and that is in UAT/Dev environment but it is a highly active application in the multi-Terabyte range (UDB). We have external prod. support for some of our apps (IBM).

I think how many a DBA can support will depend upon a number of things such as (by no means a complete list):

Production Support and/or App. Dev support
Frequency of change to an application. Some stay in a constant state of change.
Complexity of system (ERP, n-tier, custom, vendor)
Procedures/processes/technology to allow easier support of multiple systems.

David

>From: "Chuck Hamilton" <chuckh_at_softhome.net>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: POLL: Database to DBA ratio
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:59:21 -0800
>
>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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