Re: Oracle or DB2

Daniel Morgan wrote:
>
> El - Fatih wrote:
>
> > >No one would think of going into surgery with a dozen low paid (mediocre)
> > >surgeons rather than one highly paid specialist. You wouldn't go into court
> > to
> > >face a murder charge with a dozen less-expensive recnet law school
> > graduates
> > >trying to get their first experience when you could have one very expensive
> > >expert. When it comes to databases ... for reasons well beyond the bounds
> > of
> > >rationality ... there seems to be some unwritten rule that says "We can
> > afford
> > >ten beginning-intermediate developers but we can't afford to pay $200K to
> > an
> > >expert." And that is clearly nonsense. The expert will get the job done.
> > >
> > >Rant over!
> > >
> > >Daniel Morgan
> >
> > Yes you have a right. Bua, the price is not mesurement of knowledge. There
> > are many guys from India or Pakistan etc. and they would work for 64k but
> > they know more than an expert who has salary about 140-200k. I would always
> > take 3 good foreign guys than one expensive american guy.
>
> Right now a major US corporation I have worked with is doing just that. They
> just brought in about 40 developers from TATA in India. In about two years they
> will discover that they have created an absolute disaster, will terminate the
> contract, and go back on the market looking for Americans.
>
> Is it because the American programmers are better than the Indian ones? No!
> Quite likely, as a group, they are less experienced. But what the Indian
> programmers can not do from thousands of miles away is walk into someone's
> office and ask them to explain a poorly worded specification. What they can not
> do is go out into the factory, observe something being done, and understand the
> process. What they can not do is understand the nuances of American English
> usage. What they do not have is the cultural knowledge of how Americans think
> and know what is wanted even though it is not part of a written specification.
> They will do an excellent job of delivering precisely what has been requested of
> them ... and it won't work.
>
> Any idiot can bang code and quite a few prove it every day. To write a decent
> application requires business savvy. The ability to understand accounting,
> distribution, manufacturing, JIT, QC, and hundreds of other acronyms. And those
> developers that get the big dollars are being paid not just to know how to write
> SELECT field1 || field2 rather than SELECT field1, field2 ... they are being
> paid to know when.
>
> Daniel Morgan

[Quoted] And the "experts" really hate cleaning up the mess of inexeperienced programmers. Been there, done that - far too often. And many times these same companies use their programmers as DBA's. Anybody can create a table, index or tablespace - but it takes a REAL DBA to know what the ramifcations of those actions will be.

I like the DBA (not!) that applied an incremental OS backup to a running database because one file was corrupt. You figure out what he did wrong.

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