harry sheng wrote:
> You are not saying that Oracle DBA certificate is like a piece of toilet
> paper, are you?
>
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1138903333.205246_at_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
>>(replace x with u to respond)
Well an unused one in that you can show it in public. But essentially
yes. And please do not top post. Thanks.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Tue Feb 07 2006 - 10:51:29 CST
