Innovative Solutions White Paper

The document discusses challenges with Database Administrator (DBA) staffing and costs. It describes the wide range of tasks DBAs must perform, from routine operational tasks to complex strategic work. However, most organizations spend too much on high-cost DBAs performing simpler tasks and not enough on proactive strategic work. This leads to underutilization of expensive full-time DBAs, risk of outages from lack of prevention, and inability to optimize databases. An optimal solution would match task complexity with appropriate skill levels and costs, but this is difficult to achieve with traditional DBA models.