Re: What is a better career? HELP ME

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Yes, of course there is no 'master plan' to become a good DBA or developer, but to generalise so much (as in the previous post) merely asks for similar responses ;-)

Alex

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>Well - I suppose one could return the favour here and apply your choice
>of word to reply to that last statement of yours - but I'll refrain :-)
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>I suggest it depends very much on the sort of developer we're talking
>about - not all engineers make good developers or DBAs either - and not
>all developers have started out using Visual Bullshit either - some
>actually do have post-graduate qualifications in computing, some are
>engineers.
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>Having both DBAs and developers work for me I tend to encourage both to
>acquire a basic level of competence in the other field. Developers who
>don't know much about how to optimize their code, because they don't
>know how the database works are as useless to us as DBAs who will
>always ty to tell developers how to develop because they can't be
>bothered to allocate resources accordingly.
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>But in the end, the choice should really all come down to personal
>preference and enjoyment, rather than 'employability' - since both
>fields will actually have a large number of ( unfillable ) postions
>open for the foreseeable future. One thing to bear in mind, however,
>is that developers will need to be able to work in a team on all but
>the smallest projects, whereas DBAs tend to be more self-sufficient on
>all but the biggest sites, where they might be more than 1 DBA. We have
>20 servers and a team of 2 LSAs and 2 DBAs who have to co-operate
>locally - the Commission as a whole has maybe 50-100 times as many, but
>they don't need to co-operate on a daily basis.
>Oliver Willandsen - [ European Commission - http://europa.eu.int ]
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>All comments represent my own opinion and may not in any circumstance
>be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission
>
>Email: oliver.willandsen_at_DIE_SPAM_DIEsg.cec.be
> ( remove the obvious )
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Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 09:46:22 CDT