Re: Is Sr. DBAs afraid of not be able to pass cert exam ??

> I thought so. In fact in the last 12 months, I have seen NOT ONE new
> DBA job. And from all the people I've talked to, Larry's little saga
> of cost reduction has basically removed the DBA job.

I guess we all convert to java gurus then ?

> It's gonna be fun to explain to all the recently OCP-certified people
> that Larry has destroyeed their cosy "DBA future". I wanna see
> exactly how Mr. Oracle is gonna get around this "slight problem"!
> :-D

See above - Larry wants to sell us OCP AND Java certificates :-)

Now where did I leave my DB2 book ? :-)

"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:3c5d1054.3856159_at_news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> Kirt Thomas doodled thusly:
>
> >problems as they arise. I am the primary descision maker when we add
> >dba's and am always very leery of the certified applicants (lol, we
> >haven't hired one yet :) - and of the 3 year experts <G> Both
>
>
> I thought so. In fact in the last 12 months, I have seen NOT ONE new
> DBA job. And from all the people I've talked to, Larry's little saga
> of cost reduction has basically removed the DBA job.
>
> It's gone. People just haven't clicked into it. There hasn't been a
> DBA job advertised in Australia for well over 12 months! A few
> full-time ones left and that's it.
>
> It's gonna be fun to explain to all the recently OCP-certified people
> that Larry has destroyeed their cosy "DBA future". I wanna see
> exactly how Mr. Oracle is gonna get around this "slight problem"!
> :-D
>
> And what's even more stupid: DBA jobs being by definition part-time,
> the jobs that have gone are precisely these. Full time DBA jobs are
> all you can find here and preciously few at that. And the salaries
> are ridiculously low for the level of responsibility demanded.
>
> Maybe not like that overseas, but it will happen there too. Then it's
> gonna be real fun to watch the fireworks.
>
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 05:00:58 CST