Re:The future DBAs?

I'm a data modeler at heart... that's about 90% of what the military used me for. Unfortunately, it seems that, at least in this area, when the economy turns sour, the designers are the first to go.

In my last interview, I was told that they didn't really have enough work for a full time DBA yet, so the position would also likely be used as a sysad, a network engineer, a junior programmer, etc... I suppose data modelers are dead for the moment. Please contradict me. Please....

Marty

At 02:19 PM 11/26/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Personally, I like Data Architecture.
>
>And data modeling. I never could get enough
>of that. The hard part is explaining to people that
>don't quite understand the concept.
>
>Dave Hay rules!
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932633293
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>Being the sole DBA for the company, I don't get
>nearly enough opportunities for this anymore, and
>don't have the time for much of it anyway.
>
>Jared
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>dgoulet_at_vicr.com
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>Well, I give MicroSlop pretty poor grades for predicting the future and
>Monster.com is absolutely useless (naw make that less than) at job stuff
>in
>general. I will agree with the person who wrote the article on one point.
> The
>job of being a DBA is changing and we all need to remain flexible to
>remain
>useful in the marketplace. That in some cases means spreading our wings
>from
>the historical role of DBA. We may need to become part time (or full
>time) data
>architects, reporting tool experts, etc... But in the end, I don't see us
>degrading to the level of an order entry clerk nor order entry clerks
>upgrading
>to DBA's. As usual the MicroSlop propaganda machine is at work again.
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>Dick Goulet
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>Author: "Arup Nanda" <arupnanda_at_hotmail.com>
>Date: 11/25/2002 5:48 PM
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>Fellow DBAs and other DBA wannabes,
>
>Ever wondered the best path into a DBA career? Microsoft offers a
>brilliant
>way. MSN Careers at http://editorial.careers.msn.com/articles/nofuture/
>suggests some jobs are effectively dead, like farmers and sewing machine
>operators and how the experts in that field can progress to the next
>logical
>career move. Guess which profession's logical career move is database
>administrator? See the excerpt from the webpage here in the attachment as
>a
>picture.
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>I just couldn't resist posting it here. May be they are referring to SQL
>Server DBAs?
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>Arup Nanda
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