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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: DBA personality traits
Diane wrote:
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> Is it a requirement for being an Oracle DBA to be incredibly secretive
> and insular or have I just been unlucky in the ones I have met?
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> Diane
Not me - I'm always following people around and telling them how hard my job is and all the problems I have which they have caused :-)
Actually I haven't worked with many DBA's - usually a one DBA shop - but the ones I have worked with were quite helpful. Only problem was they were usually pretty busy so didn't volunteer a lot but were always forthcoming when questions were asked.
I would look at the overall work environment before stereotyping one specialty - does it encourage communication, have clearly defined boundries so that people aren't paranoid about their turf, etc.
In my environment, I could conlude that the developers and users are insular and secretive - I have a very difficult time finding out what people are doing to MY databases due to a very fragmented work structure. Also being the only DBA it's a pleasure to find someone who is interested in what I'm doing (without having a complaint).
Maybe that's why this response is so long...
fdp
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