Re: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

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• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:58 AM

> Mladen - What hasn't Dilbert had to say about managers? Read his books if
> you need more. Along this topic, someone provided the answer to "why do
> technical people like Dilbert's opinions so much?". Their response was that
> because we are hired because we are intelligent and educated (well I'm still
> fooling them), we are hard to manage.

Many years ago, long before the television commercial, I heard that "Managing programmers is like herding cats." It applys to DBAs even more.

> ...We tend not to blindly trust authority
> figures, but to be a little skeptical. In fact, sometimes I think a DBA is a
> professional skeptic.

It is a trait born of the survival instinct - and experience with wildly optimistic vendor spiel and absurd management directives.

> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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