Hey, I
was just telling someone I was in hell. A database to dba ratio of 11:1,
all 24x7 is simply
not a
good ratio.
<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Koivu, Lisa
[mailto:lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com]Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001
12:33 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:
RE: What next ?
Ross, you are being superceded as the
chief goof. Get busy!
Me, I had to kiss the current dbas'
feet, shower them with compliments about their databases, ask them tough
questions, show them how to write pl/sql, grow some grey hair and buy them
beer. I also planted a potato in my back yard behind the tree stump
after practicing my Wicca rituals, night chants and fire dances. Within
one year I was a dba :) and it's been hell ever since.
-----Original Message----- <FONT
face=Arial size=1>From: <FONT face=Arial
size=1>Gogala, Mladen [SMTP:MGogala_at_oxhp.com] <FONT face=Arial
size=1>Sent: Thursday, June
07, 2001 2:56 PM <FONT face=Arial
size=1>To: <FONT face=Arial
size=1>Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <FONT face=Arial
size=1>Subject: <FONT
face=Arial size=1>RE: What next ?
Nope. DBAs are chosen, not trained. To become a
good DBA one must go to Mt. Sinai and
talk to a burning bush. If the bush talks back, <FONT face=Arial
size=2>then the applicant will have the power to split the seas of data into
partitions. Instead of appealing to
pharaoh to let his people go, the real <FONT face=Arial
size=2>DBA uses the phrase "will you, please, lay off that @#! beeper and
leave me alone?". DBAs communicate with
the developers/users in terms of <FONT face=Arial
size=2>commandments. Disobeying them can
have excruciating consequences for all those who dare to <FONT
face=Arial size=2>disrespect a DBA. To make, the long story short, being a
DBA is a calling and <FONT
face=Arial size=2>not a job. Sincerely
yours, BDBAFH
-----Original Message----- <FONT
face=Arial size=2>Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:41 AM <FONT
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At 09:50 PM 6/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Do you want a paper to say you are
marginally qualified to be a DBA or do <FONT face=Arial
size=2>>you actually want to learn database administration?
>
To a large extent I agree with you about the
relative unimportance of paper <FONT face=Arial
size=2>qualifications. However, one thing that a formal course of study is
good for, is to make you aware of all the
nooks and crannies of your chosen <FONT face=Arial
size=2>subject. For instance, if you are self-taught, and the subject
of replication never comes up, you may
never even *know* that it exists. Or, <FONT face=Arial
size=2>unless you are very self-disciplined, you may never do anything with
crash recovery until actually presented
with the need (a bad time to be learning <FONT face=Arial
size=2>it, IMO).
So if you are going to go the self-study route,
have a formal plan of some kind --
whether it's getting hold of the course curriculum for Oracle
courses, of just getting some good DBA books and
going through them beginning to
end.
Dennis Taylor <FONT face=Arial
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