Re: To be or not to be a DBA

Hello Santosh,

  IMHO: it would take you at least 5 more years to become a reasonable good DBA.   If you already have 6 years in software development - do not discount them - choose career in development firm, that needs some DBA skills.

Regards,

  Ron
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"Santhosh Kumar" <brsanthu_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9daf2a44.0402121001.dc61fdf_at_posting.google.com...
> 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 - 12:13:31 CST