RE: Re: dba mentor
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:47:04 +0000
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Did they leave for better jobs? Was there limited chance for promotion? This is one of my issues. There is nowhere for me to go, so everyone below me is stuck. We have a revolving door with the junior staff.
Liz
Elizabeth Reen
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When I was starting to work for Oracle Consulting we were 17 people in our Group. Some years later we were down to 3. I realized that those that were left were the one who were asking questions on "how to do things".
Lothar
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I've been doing Oracle for over 25 years and I'm really shaky on loads of it. It's a massive subject and nobody can be an expert on all of it. I mean, I have just spent an hour looking at some TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE stuff before working out why the implicit conversion was just a little wrong when compared to the explicit fix I was coding. At least it wasn't WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE.
I don't recall any individual mentors, but I do recall the revelation of going to user groups, special interest groups, meetups and conferences, seeing rules of thumb and now well known myths** being destroyed and excellent knowledge and methodology being imparted. Much better than any one individual teaching you their biases and limitations.
The few last times I mentored someone, I gave them a copy of Practical Oracle8i by Jonathan Lewis (it's cheap 2nd hand and still very good) and asked them to ignore the "8i" and read it. The successful ones did, came at me with questions from it every day (which were surprisingly rarely answered with "that's not relevant any more"). It helps separate the keen to learn and progress from the keen to simply to get a better salary by being a Google DBA.
Neil Chandler
Database Guy.
**some are only dormant and are hard to kill, with an unfortunately large number of examples out there in the wild after injudicious googling and implementation-without-thought.
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I went from Super PC Technician to Junior DBA at my previous company. I had a mentor for about 6 months then he jumped ship at the first sign of trouble in the company. That left me to fend for myself for about 2 years. I learned a little from him, but most of what I learned I had to learn myself. Fortunately, I moved companies and was placed on a team where I had a number of people that I could ask questions, but never got any real kind of mentoring. I’ve got 10+ years of experience now, but still feel kind of shaky on certain topics.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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Another other details or advice?
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