One note, these types of service providers tend to specify the number of hours per week that they will dedicate to your site. This normally covers things like normal monitoring only. Anything else is done by the hour or part thereof and it's normally EXPENSIVE! Case in point is a vendor (name to remain anonymous as they almost became my employer) that dedicated 10 hours to your site each week, basically 2 hours per day which did just cover the monitoring. Anything else above that was at the hourly rate of $300 per hour. An Oracle upgrade was a normal 40 hour job by the time you included planning for, testing the upgrade, and implementation. Try to fit that into your budget, OUCH!!!
Dick Goulet -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ramesh If you visit the web sites of vendors that provide this type of service, you may find the white papers you desire. I went to Google and typed Oracle remote dba and found a lot of sites. In general terms, these companies work by first getting to know your site, having one of their employees come to your site for a week or two. Then they require you to install some monitoring software like BMC Patrol. Then you work together to set some guidelines on what they will monitor and what action they will take under certain circumstances. In addition, they can perform "staff augmentation" tasks as you desire. For example, if your site doesn't have the staff to upgrade to a newer Oracle version, they can plan that task and perform the upgrade. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear All Can anyone of u throw light on how remote dbas work. I would appreaciate if any whitepaper / document on this topic is sent to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA Best Regards Ramesh D. Papnoi -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ramesh Papnoi 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.net -- 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). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Goulet, Dick 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).
