Re: Cary's book

Mladen,

> Hard times present problems because people do
> not want to pay for a competent DBA but frequently hire a shaman or a
> witch doctor who "improves" on the system based on snake oil type
> techniques. If I cannot get more money then some bozo after a

If you know you're better than the bozo and that you can give people more value for their money then I think this is a marketing problem more than anything else. It's up to you to prove to the buyer (or your boss) that you can do the work better. Quantify your expected results. Chapter 4 has an excellent discussion on this.

Gudmundur

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