Re: Insider #60: Highlights: Logo contest, Cool SMI queries, IDS Training, Chat wit the lab, Calendar

Posted in 2005

Captain Pedantic — Fri, 1 Jul 2005 08:53:15 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@comcast.net> wrote in message news:cuCdnaiRXbG-OFnfRVn-jA@comcast.com... > > OK, Stuart - I'll take the bait. Care to reveal which company this is ? > Did your friend explain specifically why a single Oracle database system > requires 5 DBA's ? Did you ask ? I would be interested in knowing what > your friend attributed this to, because, even with a full 24x7 shift > requirement in a mission critical environment, I can't think of any > database system, Oracle or otherwise, that would need 5 DBAs to look > after it. Could it be that one of them does the work, and the other four deal with the administration necessary for the H1-B visas?