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Great Post!
Can I send you my resume?? :-)
Joe O'Brien
Experienced Sybase DBA
Inexperienced Oracle DBA
OCP Candidate
"Mike Ault" <mikerault_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> That is exactly what I am saying. We as professionals need to
> encourage and assist those with less or no experience to get that
> experience. We should encourage our employers to provide entry level
> DBA jobs so we can train the next generation of DBAs.
>
> Instead of complaining about the lack of qualified DBAs, we should be
> growing them.
>
> Mike
> Jeremy Smith <alceste_spamrem_at_removeferspam.xmission.com> wrote in message
news:<agkgbi$j88$1_at_terabinaries.xmission.com>...
> > Mike Ault <mikerault_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Classes
> > > to
> > > OCP
> > > to
> > > Intership
> > > to
> > > DBA
> > > to
> > > Senior DBA
> > > to
> > > DBA Curmudgen
> >
> > This is a path that ignores what is usually the case, that at some point
DBAs
> > end up doing a job they weren't qualified for.
> >
> > Everyone wants someone who cut their teeth somewhere else so that they
can
> > only hire those with years of experience. Unix admins feel the same
way.
> > If you want everyone to be competent in the role they've been given,
create
> > some jobs where the expectation is that they won't know everything.
> >
> > Jer
Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 13:07:10 CDT