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
(trying again with "bad" word modified )
Mike,
We rated our databases based on factors such as vocal customers,
database size (larger database might require special handling),
development stage (new, rapidly developed apps tend to cause more work)
and daily troubleshooting (anything with a pipel
Hi!
I would put it that way:
1) you got a bunch of databases
2) these databases need work done on them
3) therefore you got a bunch of DBAs
And the dimension ranges are:
1) a database can be unimportant .. very important
easy to maintain .. hard to maintain
need little skills .. need muc
At WorldCom, the manager tried to make as good of an assessment as he could
make about how much time supporting each of the databases would require and
divided the databases up as evenly as he could. Each DBA was the primary
for a certain number of databases; and just about everyone could be
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