RE: Oracle DBA(24x7) from Oracle

Arun
  Wait a minute. If your production is stable, then what are they going to be doing for your money? This is like paying for snow clearing in July. Give them the unstable system with the demanding users that always curse when they call you. Then you'll get your money's worth.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 4:24 PM
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They said they will provide any type of service (recovery, patches, applicatioin roll over, montior for performance, etc) and best is 24x7, just call the hot line and provide them userid and password. Since our production is very stable we might get a way with this type of service.

Not sure of the gotachas...

-Arun.
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> So what kind of services is Oracle providing through this 4k per month?
> If there is a small project, and you are overwhelmed. Can you give it to
> Oracle to do it for you? Will Oracle be flexiable enough to do all the
> things
> you can ask your Jr DBA to do? I don't think so. So do just look at the
> cost
> but look at the returns as well.
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:59 PM
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>
> Hi.
>
> Manager and myself were debating over this issues for quite few days
now....
>
> We were planning to hire a junior DBA, but Oracle Sales repersentatives
are
> justifying us that we dont need one, as they can provide 24x7 DBA support
> for $4K per month which works out to be $48k per year, lot cheaper than
> hiring a DBA.
>
> Anybody have any experience with this type of support.
>
> Would like to hear from your experiences.
> -Arun.
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