Re: DBAs:Databases 1:10 (Oracle) 1:31 (SQL Server)

And for those interested in what an average DBA does , ratio of DBA to databases and size of databases, what is the trend in DBA's work profile etc , have a read of the following article (PPT) by Noel Yuhanna, Forrester Research.

http://www.forrester.com/Events/Content/0,5180,-1110,00.ppt

The article was on Outsourcing - "Outsourcing Your Database Administration? Think Twice" Worth the read.

tony

At 01:03 AM 16/06/2006, Dennis Williams wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Excellent points. Does anyone remember the good old days when COBOL programmer productivity was measured by lines of code (LOC) per programmer per day? Took management an amazingly long time to figure out they were often rewarding the least efficient programmers. There were some great stories from the development of PC-DOS for the original IBM PC. The Microsoft programmers would rewrite IBM modules and shrink them for performance. By IBM's standards, Microsoft was making negative progress.
> DBAs often must choose whether to add a new application in a schema of an existing database or to create a new database. If management brags about how many databases the DBA team supports, which will you choose?
>
>Dennis Williams

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