Re: DBA skills

In article <MPG.145e55a525628e58989698_at_news.supernews.com>,   Liz Reen <lizr_at_geologist.com> wrote:
> In article <Pine.OSF.4.21.0010131540500.4656-100000_at_Bayou.UH.EDU>,
> gucciard_at_Bayou.UH.EDU says...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Other than knowing the Oracle database management software, which
> > other software packages or technologies does/may a DBA work with?
 For
> > instance, to what extent should a DBA know Oracle's host operating
> > system? What about programming languages (besides SQL)?
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help,
> > H_H
> >
> >
> The more you know about the host system the better life will be. You
> should at a minimum know how to log in, move files, do a directory
> command, and remove files.
>
> Liz
>

The better DBA's I have worked with have also had a fairly good administrative knowledge of the host O/S, which I feel is necessary to properly configure and tune an Oracle instance since many time this will involve reading O/S statistics as well as Oracle internal stats.

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David Fitzjarrell
Oracle Certified DBA


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