Our basic distinction is between production and development. Production
DBAs carry pagers, are on call 24/7, and get the big bucks. They also
specialize in recovery and (some) tuning. Development DBAs are kinda split
three ways --- physical database development (create new development,
training and testing instances and databases), logical database development
(data architects, working with fancy tools), and development team support
(work with the developers to try to keep them from doing silly things).
The workload is not even but neither is the pay.
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This question is for folks who are part of a team that manages
multiple databases and multiple platforms.
How do you balance the load among your team? We're struggling
with this concept right now as we're about to add another DBA to
the group. We've considered such things as quantity (how many DBs
does each DBA handle), importance (to the company - each DBA has
'n' databases, load (this DB is used 'n' times as much as another
one, experience (of the DBA...do we put a UNIX-familiar person in
charge of DBs on Windows?) and on and on. But then we stumble on
quantifying the terms - importance, load, etc. And we have had
some DBs that we considered 'small' become a major PITA when we
weren't looking! We just signed a deal making Oracle our DB of
choice for the next several years, so we could see an explosion
of stuff.
So I'm asking...how do you do it?
Thanks,
Mike
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Guidant Corporation
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