Re: Is it necessary for a DBA to learn JAVA?

I disagree.

I'd agree with koert54's list of essentials, but the second part of his list is right on. what is important is for you to know the technologies your developers and the third party suppliers are using. For example we use (almost) no java at all. We do however use intermedia and asp extensively. Guess what I spend a lot of time reading up on? Clearly if we ran a sun/apache/ejb environment my priorities would be somewhat different.

However and appropo the discussion about the '3 year DBA', the other key requirement in my view is a continual willigness to learn and critically evaluate. Thus I'd suggest that any new technologies are worth the research, but bear in mind that the benefit to your employer from researching them may not always be immediately apparent to the employer.

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Niall Litchfield
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"Ganesh Raja" <ganesh_at_gtfs-gulf.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to disagree to this.

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> Oracle is moving towards java and as a DBA i would surely like to learn

JAVA


> so that i know what my Database can do andthe developers can do to my

> database from java.

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> Since a lot can be achived from withing java in the Oracle database it is

> always better know the basics of that language. You need not learn how to

> create EJB and all but the basics i feel is very importnt.

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> HTH -- Additions and Corrections Welcome.

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> Regards,

> Ganesh R

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> "damorgan" <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message

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> > No.

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> > The second language for Oracle DBAs is Korn Shell (or Perl) scripting.

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> > All this JAVA stuff makes great marketing copy and helps differentiate

> > Oracle from Microsoft. But JAVA still has not reached the critical mass

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> > most Oracle environments needed to make it a necessary basic. And I

doubt


> > it ever will (meaning in the next 3-5 years).

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> > Daniel Morgan

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> > Mike F wrote:

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> > > With oracle more and more involved in JAVA, there are a lot of stuff

in


> > > my database that I do not know, like JAVA Class, is it necessary for

us


> > >  to learn JAVA, or as long as we know how to install JVM following the

> > >  procedure, is that good enough?

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> > > Any suggestion?

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