Re: Only a sennior DBA would know

I never understood why it matters if you have 7 -10 years of experience to be considered as a Senior level. Oracle's technology has changed dramatically in the past 2 years alone. Sure you might have 10 years of experience with Oracle Ver. 5,6 or even 7, but a company who uses Oracle 8 won't benefit any different from an junior level who has the same year experience as the senior level guy with Oracle 8. With the latest technology with Hardware and OS, backup and recovery, tuning and Administration theories and procedures changed from 3 years ago. I believe Oracle is an on going learning process, and those of us who spend 5 years behind a desk in the same company as a DBA without keeping up with technology deserves no better pay because he is considered "senior level". I am open to any comments in regards to this topic, and invite the Older guys to contribute to this discussion.

I started out a year and half ago, and I'm still learning, as Thomas Kyte and Jeremiah Wilton will tell you. I will always consider myself as Junior Level, because as soon as I get everything down %100, it will all change on me.

To answer the original post, I'm not "senior level" but the company that I work for is a sales and consulting company, I charge $220/hr to design, implement, administer, back-up and recover and fine tune version 7 and version 8 databases. If we ever have a client that wants to stay with version 6, we will need to hire a senior level Oracle DBA.

> On 8 Oct 1998 20:40:24 GMT, "Rob" <robbiea_at_idirect.com> wrote:
>
> >...someone who would be qualified to help me.
> >
> >I need to ask some specific questions regarding Oracle Database
> >Administration. Please only respond to me if you have at least 7 or 8
> >years of experience working within an Oracle Database. I am interested in
> >finding out what the market is like for senior oracle DBA's. What type of
> >dollars they can command, and what employers they would consider quality
> >ones.
> >
> >Also I am interested in the differences between Full Time and Contract
> >DBA's. Is Contract more popular than Full time these days? Are there any
> >DBA's who still work Full Time?
> >
> >I live in Canada, so anybody in Canada would be more help to me than
> >anywhere else, but everyone feel free to respond
> >
> >Please email me back
> >
> >
> >Thank you
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >
> >robbiea_at_idirect.com (home)
> >
> >
>
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