Re: About LMT's -- nice article

Nuno Souto wrote:

> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E4FD8F4.5FA42F8D_at_exesolutions.com>...
> >
> > Anything less than Oracle 9i experience won't get you an interview by
> > the end of this year. Developers and DBAs need to act in their own
> > vested self-interest unless they wish to go the way of the dinosaurs and
> > the RPG II programmers.
>
> I think you're going too far there. At least in Australia,
> I can tell you for sure that 9i here is currently mostly immaterial.
> Vast majority of sites are in 7, 8 or 8i and those are by far the most common
> requirements anywhere.
>
> Besides, I do have a serious problem with anyone claiming that
> professional competence in a field as vast as database administration
> is in any way, shape or format linked to a particular version.
>
> That may be the case with M$ software but as far as the rest of IT
> is concerned, it has never been like that and it most
> certainly won't start now.
>
> With all due respect to those here who make a living out of
> selling version-dependent competence/instruction/consultancy/whatever.
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam

Speaking for the Pacific Northwest region of the US (if I may be so bold and presumtive) there is no 6 or 7 and very very little 8.0. That doesn't mean I couldn't find one or two hiding at Boeing or another large company in a legacy role ... but it would be a matter of having to do major research to find it.

With Oracle releasing verison 10i this year, according to an otn web page I found ... around May-July, companies here will have all the 8i expertise they need. They will certainly keep those people but they'll not be advertising for more. They will be moving 8.0 and 8i to 9i ... or 9i to 10i. Any lesser skill set will not be in demand.

And I do believe version related skills are critical. With the release of 10i knowledge of the RBO and related tuning will be meaningless. Knowledge of rollback tablespaces and segments will be irrelevant. Knowledge of dictionary managed tablespaces will be irrelevant. And surprise surprise knowledge of SQL*Plus will be nearly irrelevant. And I could go on without once divulging information not published by Oracle at otn.oracle.com.

Those that do not know the word "quiescing", how to use the "advice" views such as db_cache_advice, optimizer dynamic sampling, etc. ... may still be hired. But they will get eaten alive by 20-30 year olds that have learned on 9i and are not stuck with the way things "used to be".

Daniel Morgan Received on Sun Feb 16 2003 - 18:50:52 CST