Re: Is a RDBMS needed?

  • From: Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:27:16 -0400

operations DBAs in the US tend to make considerably more than developers.
Now that is not always true in a slow economy. There is alot of low balling.
but if they are low balling the dbas at a company, they are probably doing
the same to developers.



On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dba DBA wrote,on my timestamp of 28/06/2011 12:00 AM:
>
>
>  scaling concerns may not be real high anyway. The time to develop may be
>> faster
>> and the costs lower since you don't have to pay a DBA, the developers can
>> do
>> everything, and the developers are too lazy to learn how the database
>> works. On
>>
>
> Where are these developers that are cheaper than a DBA?  Over here, they
> get paid at $1500/day minimum, while DBAs are lucky if they can get
> $500/day...
> Isn't it about time we pin-pointed WHERE the expenses are going instead of
> rolling out the tired old "DBAs are expensive" chestnut?  Might have been
> true 10 years ago. Not anymore and hasn't been for a looong time.
>
>
>
>  guys lingo (they do have their own internal lingo). We can't control what
>> developers can do, but we can improve our own skills. If you learn to talk
>> to
>> developers like a developer its easier to get them to listen to you. You
>> will
>> also have better suggestions since you understand the application better.
>> Alot
>> of this just comes from talking to developers and asking questions. I have
>> found
>>
>
> The alternative is of course to improve the quality of developers?
>
>
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> Nuno Souto
> in wet Sydney, Australia
> dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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