Re: Want to be a DBA? Be careful what you ask for.....
Date: 1996/09/24
Message-ID: <3247552D.47AF_at_laoc.SHL.com>#1/1
Marek Wiechula and Sheila Plant wrote:
>
> J Yang wrote:
> >
> > To all you experienced DBAs :
> >
> > What made you want to be a DBA? More money? More prestige? Why?
> >
> > I have been preparing to become a DBA for a long time. Occasionally the question
> > would come to my mind : Why do you want to be a DBA? I can not seem to be able to come up
> > with a convincing answer. And then the phrase would pop up : Be careful what you ask for,
> > because you just might get it!
> >
> > It would be a heartbreak to realize what you spend so much time and effort to get
> > is not really what you want! But by then it will have been a little too late to turn back.
> >
> > What's the big deal being a DBA? Any comment will be appreciated!
> >
> > - J. Yang
>
> Well, of course, like most DBA's, I was drawn to that career option because that
> allowed me to help more people at a time...
>
> But seriously, in my case it just arose from smaller decisions along the way. As
> a junior member of staff I found that Computer Graphics were already covered but
> they needed someone to cover a hierarchical Database system called System 2000.
> My role at that center already included installing and supporting various
> commercial software and so I just started installing and supporting database
> management systems too.
>
> It was more interesting to support database management systems that statistical
> analysis packages and so there you are....
So, where is that Oracle bug list or ftp.oracle.com at anyway?? Received on Tue Sep 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST