Re: Cynicism was LMT and Siebel/Peoplesoft?

I agree with a bit of complication thrown in for good measure. DBA is not one job. Your comments are true for production DBAs. But I don't think good production DBAs make good Development DBAs. And if you turn the "A" from Administrator into Architect. Not that either.

To me a good production DBA has the same skill set that makes a good fireman or policeman (no gender discrimination intended).

Daniel Morgan

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:3c4d5be9.4058266_at_news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> > 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.
>
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 06:49:34 CST