I bet a senior DBA would have enough experience
to double check the spelling in the title of the
news message (s)he was about to send off. Regardless
of specific database knowledge, the problem-solving skills
make the difference.
Fred Pierce wrote:
>
> satar_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> ...
>
> Always an interesting topic. What about the same number of years RDBMS
> experience but different platforms? I often wonder how much I benefit
> from different perspectives, in my case Ingres, Oracle, Sybase, vs the
> lesser depth of experience on any one platform. Likewise the "1 year
> experience 8 times" phenomenon - what sort of environment and activities
> was the DBA involved with? The field includes so many diverse
> specialties and tools it's not difficult to go for a couple of years
> without touching on many of them.
>
> fdp
>
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Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 21:44:12 CDT
