Re: Oracle Taking Control

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:44:16 +0000, Chom Noamsky wrote:

> <grin>
> As a senior Java code monkey and team lead, if posed with the choice of
> hiring one Oracle DBA at $80K per year, or two junior Java code monkeys at
> $40K per year, I'll hire the Java monkeys and train them to be admins and
> they will be as competent as necessary. The bottom line is DBA's cost a
> company money, Java developers make a company money, and no good database
> product should need a $80K per year "babysitter."
> </grin>
>

Yup. With minor corrections where required to match my experience, I totally agree with both side to this ... that it's cheaper to build something cheap and fix it later on someone else's budget and that no GOOD database application needs a babysitter.

Too bad there are very few GOOD database applications written by cheap code jockeys.

Also too bad few code monkeys understand how to code properly against a database. Those are the cases where a good DBA would have helped. But instead the end cost is usually bigger boxes, more licenses, more ...

Very Dilbert-esque, ain't it.

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