RE: What next ?

From: Rao, Maheswara <Maheswara.Rao_at_Sungardp3.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:17:07 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00322AEC.20010608115521@fatcity.com>

I sent Mladen Gogala's mail to my boss and to a couple of managers. Everyone had a nice laughter and of course, now, they know about DBA.

Thanks Mladen for your nice one.

Rao

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:20 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Mladen Gogala for president!

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:56 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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, 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 DBA uses the phrase "will you, please, lay off that @#! beeper and leave me alone?". DBAs communicate with the developers/users in terms of commandments.
Disobeying them can have excruciating consequences for all those who dare to disrespect a DBA. To make, the long story short, being a DBA is a calling and
not a job.
Sincerely yours,
BDBAFH -----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:41 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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
>you actually want to learn database administration?
>

To a large extent I agree with you about the relative unimportance of paper 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 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, 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 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

Living with a saint is harder than being one.

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