Re: Becoming an Oracle DBA (part 3)

Hmm

For me that last is about one new project every 2-3 months. It's been that way for the last 18months. I'd be surprised if this was actually that unusual these days. Sure you don't replace your ERP package that often. But that new web data entry system that relies on packaged procedures, or this new 'knowledge management'/'proactive resource scheduling' system or isn't it about time we migrated our systems to Oracle 8 or well you get the picture.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Mark" <cdo_at_lambic.co.uk> wrote in message news:39ec5ba2.414913583_at_news...


> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:03:20 -0500, H_H <gucciard_at_Bayou.UH.EDU> almost

> coherently wrote:

> >There are 2 main points that hold me back from going into Database

> >Administration, that is:

> >1.  A lot of overtime or lots of hours involved.

> >2.  High Stress.

> >In your opinion, to what extent are these two points true?

>

> Depends how good you are at DBA :-)

>

> If you're good, you'll automate as much as possible, and spend most of

> the time surfing the web (not that I would do such a thing ;)).

>

> You have to be prepared for some high stress, high overtime moments,

> such as losing a hard drive, or other events catastrophic to your

> database, but these tend to be fairly rare.

>

> The only other time you really suffer long hours is when a new project

> is being moved into production, depending on how smoothly it goes.

>

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> Mark Styles - Oracle/Unix developer and DBA

> http://www.lambic.co.uk