DBA != DBA They come with different skillsets and sadly, some very different competences[1] Ignore the latter point and you'll think of them as equal therefore

DBA != DBA They come with different skillsets and sadly, some very different competences[1] Ignore the latter point and you'll think of them as equal therefore interchangeable and start outsourcing to save money. Ok, buy cheap pay twice, or more likely, much more. [1] My replacement at my last job didn't seem to understand MSSQL server even had a query optimiser. His knowledge was 20+ years obsolete at least.