Re: Your frank opinion

great point, so like today's agenda:

research new version of xml for pl/sql: 2 hours lunch at my desk, going thru abstracts for openworld: 2 hours finish up a shell script and some pl/sql pgms i been working on: 2 hours read 8.1.6.1 patchset docs: 1 hour
get thru listserv email: 1 hour

:)

joe

Deepak Sharma wrote:

> 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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