To be or not to be a DBA

Hi All,

I have been working in this industry for more than 6 years and have good experience in J2ee (Design and development) and Oracle (development and dev admin) (lots other like vb and c++, although they are not my primary skills).

I had always been curious about Oracle and wanted to know in detail about the same. So around one and half years back, I took the certification and completed 8i recently. I started mere out of curiosity but learned a lot in detail at the end of whole process. Now I'm thinking, as I have completed the cert and also have good amount of knowledge in Oracle administration, to get into the DBA profession. As everybody else, obviously I'm looking for some lucrative career.

Any suggestions are welcome regd,

1. Whether to get into the dba profession or not
2. Is dba is any lucrative career than J2ee architecture and design?
3. Or any other thoughts you have regd this

Santhosh. Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 12:01:04 CST