Re: DBA to Solve your database headaches

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:08:08 GMT
Message-ID: <3bdfcd07.3175383@news>

In a valiant and sublime effort,Fuzzy
frowned, dipped a thumb in soot and doodled:

>
>Ah ... the search for DBAs. It's even worse down here in Canberra,
>Nuno. It took me nearly 18 months to find 2 people who had a clue
>about oracle (and thankfully they do ... that was a relief). It did
>have it's humourous moments ... a few applicants having done a quick
>VB + MS Access course reckoned they could easily do this Oracle thing,
>and they were *only* asking $60K :-) (pacific pesos again).
>

Hi Fuzz. Yeah, lovely ain't it? Last contract I was in, they had around 40 developers and 30 "DBA"s floating around the place. One wonders...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Wed Oct 31 2001 - 04:08:08 CST