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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, john.g_at_dot.spamfree.com wrote:
> Sorry, but, while not on a par with medicine ( or law or
> nursing, or many others) , any profession responsible ,in many
> cases, for keeping multi-million dollar organizations up and
> running ( think about the Airlines, Banks, Stock Exchange,UPS,
> etc.) need not be shy about being proud of its skills. [I
> know of one company that would lose 25K for each minute the
> database was down] Their does need to be some way, however, to
> insure that those that profess to be DBAs ( or Application
> Developers, Web Designers, whatever) have the skill set needed
> for the task at hand. How to do this makes for a lively debate.
I never said, nor do I think that we shouldn't be extremely proud and also strive to be very good at what we do. I just fundamentally disagree with those in this newsgroup that think what we do is do damn important, so important that they liken it to medicine.
-- Galen BoyerReceived on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 15:14:10 CST