RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion

From: Jack C. Applewhite <japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:33:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002CE485.20010315141109@fatcity.com>

Startling Quote from below:
"She points out that DBAs sometimes become necessary in new data architecture or warehousing projects."

Only sometimes? If that is truly the trend, no wonder so many such projects fail!

Jack

Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator/Developer
OCP Oracle8 DBA
iNetProfit, Inc.
Austin, Texas
www.iNetProfit.com
japplewhite_at_inetprofit.com

-----Original Message-----
Boivin,
Patrice J
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:41 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L opinion

FYI, I found this on the computerworld web site:

Database administrator

                     "It's not that it's a hot one," Mark

Krusinski at
Emerald Resource Group Inc. in Broadview

                     Heights, Ohio, says about database

administrators
(DBA). "It remains constant. It's not

                     weakening."

                     DBAs - particularly for Oracle - can

always get a job,
according to recruiters. The demand for

                     Oracle administrators is highest, but

Microsoft Corp.'s
SQL Server is growing, even at

                     high-transaction firms that should be

Oracle Corp.'s
bread and butter. And every recruiter

                     seems to have some base of clients that

use Sybase,
Informix or DB2. And watch out for

                     IBM's new product later this year.

                     The bottom line is that no company

subtracts DBAs; they
only add more, gradually, as their

                     departments grow.

                     "There's actually more need for that

than ever before
because the rest of the organization is

                     screaming for that data," says Jones.

She points out
that DBAs sometimes become necessary

                     in new data architecture or warehousing

projects.

The URL is
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV64_STO57985 ,00.html
<http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV64_STO5798 5,00.html>

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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