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Re: Fresher DBA!!!

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:02:13 -0800
Message-ID: <1138903333.205246@jetspin.drizzle.com>


Joel Garry wrote:

> I consider it a worthy goal to get from a mess to babysitting.

Though with Grid Control in 10g you shouldn't be babysitting. You should productively spending your time improving emergency preparedness procedures, verifying that your backups can actually be used to recover, attending meetings to keep managers from buying stupid off-the-shelf products, and monitoring the activities of development to make sure they aren't going down the wrong path.

Let the Grid's alerts ... tell you when you need to take a look.

> I agree, adequate SQL abilities are necessary. I'm not convinced
> super-duper SQL abilities are necessary, unless the DBA is directly
> involved with SQL development.

I am. I know a lot of DBAs that can't write a decent PL/SQL block and they rarely if ever do code reviews, have no ability to understand wither COTS software (commercial off-the-shelf) is well written or a pile of junk, are generally marginal at tuning, and are incapable of helping development do things such as move from cursor loops to array processing.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Thu Feb 02 2006 - 12:02:13 CST

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