Tony - I agree with Tim. This reminds me of the practice years ago of measuring the productivity of COBOL programmers by measuring their LOC (lines of code) production. Number of instances, how large, the number of developers or end users all have an effect. But how this all works out depends on many factors that are hard to quantify. Take 24x7 for example. All my instances are 24x7. I support production plants that are running 3 shifts at times. But, knock on wood, Oracle is pretty reliable and I usually don't get called. Some of our Unix servers have been up over a year. But I wouldn't classify my 24x7 alongside some eCommerce sites where the company's revenue depends on that site being up every minute. There is a lot of difference between developers. An experienced developer you've worked with for many years won't need the detailed assistance that a new developer will.
Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm trying to justify hiring another DBA, and management wants more justification. I have put together the usual reasons, but they want "Industry Standards", like how many Databases can one DBA manage. Or how many GB/DBA or endusers/DBA? Does anyone keep these kind of stats? thanks __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: tony ynot INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
