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RE: Help - DBA interview questions I faced

From: <Peter.McLarty_at_mincom.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:08:52 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E3860.20011227151021@fatcity.com>


In some organisations I have worked for you get to be a manager by longevity so you could be a programmer one day and because you stuck it out, the next one your an IT manager for everything IT, Dont laugh one of the guys there now got to be the IT manager just that way. I didnt want to stick it out long enough to see if I could make IT manager

Cheers

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================================================= A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.    - Walter Bagehot (1826-1877 British Economist) ================================================= Mincom "The People, The Experience, The Vision" ================================================= "Boivin, Patrice J" <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca> Sent by: root_at_fatcity.com 27/12/2001 10:40 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>         cc:                 Fax to:                 Subject:        RE: Help - DBA interview questions I faced I am wondering how such people get into positions where they are responsible for hiring new staff, if they themselves know nothing. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services        | Services technologiques Informatics Branch         | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO      | Région des Maritimes, MPO E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
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                From:                 Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:wisernet100_at_YAHOO.COM]
                Sent:                 Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:05 AM
                To:                 Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
                Subject:                 Re: Help - DBA interview questions I faced

                and eventually, when they realize they can't find that omniscient
                person, they come back to reality

                --- Robert Chin <chinman_at_optonline.net> wrote:
                > > I liked the interviews where they told me about their project,
and
                > > I told them how I could contribute - strengths and weaknesses.
                > > I'm great at *****.  I don't know much about YYY, but I'm
willing
                > to
                > > learn......We cannot know everything.....
                >
                > That worked in the "good old days" (pre-2001), not any more, not
by a
                > long shot
                > These days one is expected to be EXPERT of everything the
employers
                > list
                > explicitly and implicitly (which seems to be getting longer...)
plus
                > this and
                > that....
                >
                > Oracle guru ? you'd wish it's so simple...so Mr Xyz, do you know
SQL
                > Server ?
                > Sybase ?
                > MQ ? Java ? EJB? ASP? Data Warehousing ? data modeling ? Oracle
Apps
                > ?
                > SAP? Essbase ?  Cognos ? Informatica ?............
                >
                > That's what's so freaky and hedious the job market for hands-on
                > techies is.
                > You ARE expected to know everything !
                >
                > Robert Chin
                >
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                > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
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                > Author: Robert Chin
                >   INET: chinman_at_optonline.net
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