Re: Seeking Advice: MS SQL DBA learning Oracle?

Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<3ce0dedd$0$15149$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> In article <1efdad5b.0205131228.2e5f806_at_posting.google.com>, you said
> (and I quote):
>
> > So if you tell people to try to be DBAs first nearly all of them will
> > not get a job.
>
> Unless they become OCP certified by rote. Which happens a lot.

Oh dear, that could be me! I followed the usual (?) upgrade path to being a dba :

gets job as developer using Uniface (yeugh) for more money than I ever got being a 'dba' & developer & Tech Support Technician in my last job. (IDMS(X) on ICL mainframes - anybody know it?)

Got fed up of Uniface, and applied for vacancy in Tech Support - got it.

'DBA' leaves (no training, no OCP, just on the job experience (some good, some bad). I get the job, trained by Oracle in SQL, DBA, B&R and Tuning and achieve the OCP in 7 & 8. Get more money for doing so (hooray !)

I've never been an Oracle developer, nor written much PL/SQL, but I think I do a pretty good job of looking after our set up here. Not that it is 24/7/365 or such, but I keep it running.

On the other hand, I have learned a lot from this NG and from many of the regulars, I remember being on the wrong end of Howard a while back - taught me a lot that did, and he was right. This NG is probably the best place to learn.

Now, ask me how I would cope in a 'proper' environment where I was responsible for 24/7/365 etc, and I'd probably have kittens.

I'm *not* a DBA, as I don't know it in such depth as Nuno, Sybrand, Jonathan, Niall, Connor, Tom etc but I try. My book collection is growing daily.

Cheers,
Norman.

PS. I hate this bl**dy firewall ! Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 10:04:04 CDT