Re: Oracle versus MS Sqlserver 2000: Technical Comparison of the Features in the two databases

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:25:01 +1100
Message-Id: <pan.2003.03.11.09.25.00.918802@yahoo.com.au>

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:12:13 +0000, Noons wrote:

> Following up on Howard J. Rogers, 13 Mar 2003:
>
>

>> If I were a DBA today, I'd be checking out jobs for Web Administrators
>> tomorrow. And brushing up on my XML.

>
>
> Hehehe! Is that why Oracle is offering the
> "masters" now? I mean, with the DBA job going
> "down the tubes", who the heck would want
> to even bother with certification... :)
>
>
> But you're quite right. Thing is: I've been
> warning everyone *precisely* about this for
> years now. Here and all over the place.
> Any certification is worthless if the job
> isn't there to start with. Then again, it must
> be me.

It's like generals: always ready to fight the last war, only better. Never the next, only right. Certification seems to me (batten down the hatches) showing how good you are in yesterday's technology.

The industry moves too fast for certification to be anything other than a snapshot of abilities, and hence a testimony to the Way Things Were.

>
> Oracle is gonna have to do some very tricky
> jumping to get out of the hole they dug for
> themselves. What's gonna happen when thousands
> of small to medium customers out there who don't
> wanna pay Support's exorbitant rates find
> out there aren't ANY DBAs out there in the market?

Don't panic, Nuno. By then, the database will advise them of where the nearest therapist is, and they can calm down, safe in the knowledge that the database is coping with situation.

"Then" is next year, BTW.

> Who's gonna run things then? India? Yeah, right!
> Oh no, that's right: the iron curtain dbas Oracle is
> hiring as "trainees"! Of course. Until the immigration
> mob finds out about yet another little racket...

There will always be a market for the uber-guru. Like there has always been a market for the lumpenproletariat. Tis the way of things. Polarisation, and nary a twiglet between the extremes.

Either you're an Alpha, or a Gamma, or you know XML.

Welcome to the brave new world.

Sorry. Can't hang around. Got my 'XML in 20 Minutes" book to finish.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 03:25:01 CST