"Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> Far from wanting to be cynical, Daniel.
But if you weren't you wouldn't be a DBA. I've been pondering a bit Tom
Kytes suggestion in his book that the types of people who make good DBAs
differ from those who make good developers and I think this is one area
where he is right. A good DBA is cynical and conservative. A good Developer
uses the latest and greatest tools. It also shows here where I see
developers advocating .net (it could equally be J2EE) because xml will glue
all these apps together and the n-tier architecture answers your performance
and scalability problems. Frankly , though I like the technology I don't
believe it will bring the benefits advertised, we've been able to link apps
together and publish services through various API's for at least 10 years.
Vendors don't do it. I don't see why they should start now that we have a
different way to achieve similar results.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 09:54:29 CST
