It's happening to a lot of us, but I had
one happen to me. One of my larger clients decided to go no DBA to save money.
On the average they were 10-12 hours a week.
I could use something or a couple of small something to replace them one
of these days soon.
I work for a small company, consultants
helping consultants, and that doesn't make for much of a sales force.
I've got 20 years of Oracle experience since 4.1.0 and
should be able to find something, but I like the idea of the list as we help
each other and I've provided input to several others who were in the same boat
before...
What I currently do:
Health Assessments. Thank goodness I've got a few of them I'm working on.
Basically a full risk analysis and evaluation of how things are in the database.
Looking for problems that are hard to find, etc.
Remote DBA. Given a VPN, I can do pretty much what a DBA can except
change tapes, etc. Once trended, I can pretty much give "no more database
surprises". This can include log reviews, and everything else. We're all DBAs
here so I don't need to hit that too hard.
Trending combined with "quick looks". Where I work with staff, and point
them in a direction to keep things working smoothly. Some of these arrangements
can work out to be very economical. This can be the clean out of large tables,
SQL that NEEDS an index, general DBA stuff. The trending goes back 5 samples and
allows me to predict when things are going to become a problem or that while we
may have a CUSTOMER table needing room for an extent, the current extent will
take some 48 weeks or maybe 5 months to fill.
I can send a sample if desired, but please, OFF LIST.
If you know of something, if you need backup for a vacation, what ever.
Let me know and we'll find out if we can help each other.
Thanks list.
Michael Alan Kline, Sr.
Phone: 804-744-1545 Cell: 804-314-6262
