Verizon

The technology and systems are challenging.

Many database environments have RAC and SharePoint. This is a blessing and a burden.

Much overnight work, frequent crises, and a demanding work environment. Shareplex probably increases the problems and alerts by threefold. The applications I supported are very demanding and require off-hours for most of the changes, which were frequent. I'm talking about 11 PM or 2 AM start times, and it often was 6-8 hours of work.

They require a lot of Oracle patching and 8 Enterprise releases per year for many applications, and that's something that runs on weekends for about 12-18 hours. Most people have had enough after 1-2 years.

Hire more DBAs to spread out the off-hours work and support.