Re: Oracle DBA(24x7) from Oracle

yea i pick either India or Manila, probably not Iraq :)

joe

Khedr, Waleed wrote:

>I'm sure it will be offshore resources.
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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.
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>Not sure of the gotachas...
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>-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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>>Hi.
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>>Manager and myself were debating over this issues for quite few days
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>now....
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>>We were planning to hire a junior DBA, but Oracle Sales repersentatives
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>are
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>>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.
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>>Anybody have any experience with this type of support.
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>>Would like to hear from your experiences.
>>-Arun.
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