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lots of fun stuff at work

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I've been doing some really fascinating stuff at work, of late. Not strictly DBA work mind you, but lots of fun.

Today I was attempting to take all of our overwrought figures on how much time it would take to handle a given number of databases, and to turn that into a number of DBA's we'd have to have on hand, and a number of supervisors to, er, supervise. I came up with an answer, in the end. I mean, I guess that's a given, but it was answer that didn't seem out of line. The boss didn't seem to stunnoched with the figures, either. And they were certainly financially sound figures - a strange sensation for someone who's spent some years working with floundering startups with no business thinking in 'em.