RE: FW: DBAs:Databases 1:10 (Oracle) 1:31 (SQL Server)
- From: "Mercadante, Thomas F \(LABOR\)" <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracledba.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:43:19 -0400
Dennis,
I liked the "Pay for finding bugs" style of management.
Two guys in cahoots could make a ton of extra money that way!!!
Tom
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Subject: Re: FW: DBAs:Databases 1:10 (Oracle) 1:31 (SQL Server)
Mark,
Excellent points. Does anyone remember the good old days when COBOL
programmer productivity was measured by lines of code (LOC) per
programmer per day? Took management an amazingly long time to figure out
they were often rewarding the least efficient programmers. There were
some great stories from the development of PC-DOS for the original IBM
PC. The Microsoft programmers would rewrite IBM modules and shrink them
for performance. By IBM's standards, Microsoft was making negative
progress.
DBAs often must choose whether to add a new application in a schema
of an existing database or to create a new database. If management brags
about how many databases the DBA team supports, which will you choose?
Dennis Williams
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