Dgiwiseguy,
Thank you for your positive response to my clarification request.
According to Oracle expert Arup Nanda, coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL for
DBAs, there are at least a million Oracle Database Administrators
worldwide
Excerpt from an O'Reilly Press Release dated November 4, 2000:
?Currently, there are at least a million Oracle DBAs worldwide, and "a
solid working knowledge of PL/SQL is crucial for them," Nanda asserts.
Named the Oracle Magazine 2003 DBA of the Year, Nanda and his coauthor
Steven Feuerstein, one of the world's foremost PL/SQL experts, are
both well known and respected in the community.
Both contribute regularly to Oracle Magazine and the Oracle Technology
Network, and in fact, Nanda and Feuerstein penned the network's most
frequently accessed articles over the past two years.?
"The scope of a DBA's work is increasing," Nanda explains. "These
days, DBAs are generally responsible for anything that is in, and
executes in, their databases, including the code.?
O'Reilly Press: November 4, 2005
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1456
About Arup Nanda
?Arup Nanda is a Senior Oracle DBA with 10 years of experience with a
variety of projects using skills in Oracle Database Administration
(DBA), Oracle Parallel Server, Performance Tuning, Security
Administration, Replication, Distributed Databases, Enterprise
Manager, Database Design, XML, System Design, Object-Based Design,
Data Modeling, PL/SQL, Pro*C, C, Unix, NT, Shell Scripting. He has an
MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, India.?
Author of Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs (O'Reilly) October 2005
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/2307
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Other figures that might interest you:
In April 2002, Oracle.com president Tim Chou stated that there were an
estimated 500,000 Oracle DBAs (database managers) in the world.
?Chou: We don't have really good data, but if you think about this,
the true cost of software is in the operation, maintenance, et cetera
of software, which has implications on both sides of the fence. We
estimated there are 500,000 Oracle DBAs (database managers) in the
world today. If you [estimate that each one ] costs a company
$100,000, that means people are spending $50 billion supporting,
managing and operating Oracle software. We're not unique in this, the
vast preponderance of cost in IT is not hardware and software it's the
people to manage all this because software changes, software is not
bug free.?
From eWEEK, April, 2002 :
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdewk/is_200204/ai_ziff24982
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In March 2002, Tier 1 Research estimated that there were 500,000
Oracle DBAs in the world
?We estimate that there are 500,000 Oracle DBAs in the world.?
Source:
Outsourcing Strategy Analyst Briefing
Tier 1 Research : March 21, 2002
http://www.tier1research.com/pdf/samples/conference_1.pdf
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The New York Oracle Users Group stated in June 2002 that there were
100,000 Oracle DBAs in the United States
Source:
Managing Databases in a wireless world
The New York Oracle Users Group, Inc.
June 2002
http://www.nyoug.org/jun2002kaplan.pdf
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I hope the information provided is helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
