Re: factotum / Re: OT- Where will these job duties will take me?

personally I like Jeff Stevenson's tag line "Chief Databeast Tamer"

no a developer can't be a senior dba that easily ... but heck, that job description sounds a lot like what I do!

>From: "Eric D. Pierce" <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
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>Subject: factotum / Re: OT- Where will these job duties will take me?
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:40:28 -0800
>
>Huh? can a developer become a senior dba that easy? :)
>
>There was a funny, very knowledgable (considering he was
>from oracle corp. technical pre-sales) older guy
>I met about 10 years ago whose business card said:
>
> "Chief Button Pusher"
>
>
>On 19 Jan 2001, at 8:11, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
>
>Date sent: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:11:41 -0800
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>
> > sounds like a senior dba to me :)
> >
> >
> > >From: "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <rajendra.jamadagni_at_espn.com>
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > >Subject: OT- Where will these job duties will take me?
> > >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 05:35:51 -0800
>...
>
> > >Now there is a talk of making this as an official part of my job
>duties.
> > >
> > >Those will include,
> > >* being the point person for Oracle troubleshooting,
> > >* building/resolving interface (between different applications) issues
> > >* Smoothing out complicated processes.
> > >* researching/ evaluating/recommending new products/utilities/versions
>for
> > >our development staff
> > >* Getting to know the latest technological improvements happening in
>Oracle
> > >releases and evaluating their feasibility for our application
> > >
> > >This is a very broad description, no doubt more will be there. This
>won't
> > >take me away from coding completely, but it probably will constitute
>only a
> > >part (less than 25%) but more involvement on design side.
>
>...
>
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