Joe,
Absolutely true. Knowledge is what we get paid for.
This has been my experience too regd the work I have
been doing, (esp. Physical DBA).
However, what I don't understand is when people talk
about supporting 10 peoplesoft databases, what exactly
do they do. My current client has Peoplesoft financial
and Order management applications which total upto 12
databases in all. Apart from that I am also supporting
non-peoplesoft databases (4). All I do daily is check
my email for any outstanding user requests, check the
Alert logs, run DB monitoring scripts against select
few databases etc. Apart from this daily activity,
there are adhoc requests to refresh test from prod,
fix database errors and so on. This has been the case
with most of the clients I'd been working with. Now,
my question to the (Physical) DBAs is, what extra
stuff they do regularly to come with 40+ Hrs per week.
My formula for 40 Hrs:
2 Hrs Regular DB support +
2 Hrs Email & Web Browsing +
1 Hr Lunch +
1 Hr Phone +
2 Hrs Self Study = Daily 8 Hrs
I know people who genuinely work 40+ Hrs, but most of
the fellow DBAs I know spend lot of time doing nothing
concrete. How else could they participate in the stock
market ?
- Deepak
- "Joseph S. Testa" <teci_at_oracle-dba.com> wrote:
> Deepak, my latest job, i have to agree with you,
> most weeks its less
> than 40, rarely ts more than 40.
>
> reason that i've come to conclusion is this:
>
> they pay me for what i know, not necessarily what i
> do, knowledge is
> power(and money these days).
>
> they catch is this: dont get stale, read the new
> documentation when it
> comes out, buy books, read them and stay on top of
> the new stuff.
>
>
> Here is a prime example:
>
> while at IOUG-A in may, i was paged about a
> partitioned table, they
> wanted to move rows between the partitions(ie:
> change the key value), by
> dafault you can't do that, so they were panicked
> enough to potentially,
> unload millions of rows, change the key value during
> the unload,
> truncate the table, and reload all the data.
>
> I was studying for 8i OCP exam and had just read
> about
> alter table <table_name> enable row movement;
>
> by default row movment is disabled.
>
> so they pay me for what I know :)
>
> my 2 cents worth.
>
> joe
> Deepak Sharma wrote:
> >
> > How many of the DBAs out there frankly work more
> than
> > 40 Hrs a week on an average ? I have seen DBAs,
> > specifically contrators (I'm one myself) put in 10
> or
> > 12 Hrs a day on the paper. In reality, it's the
> 10-12
> > Hrs they sit at work, either showing everyone how
> busy
> > they are or creating work out of nowhere so that
> they
> > could stay longer at work (and get the extra
> bucks).
> > We've all had our chances working 24-36 Hrs on
> stretch
> > in crisis situations, but in general, how much
> > significant work does a DBA have. Most of the time
> I
> > find it difficult to fill even the 40 Hrs in the
> > timesheet. My favorite activity !! Browse this
> list.
> >
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