Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

On Sat, 22 May 1999 06:59:54 GMT, mkx_at_excite.com wrote:

>It would seem that most DB2/Oracle/Sybase DBA positions are listed for
>UNIX systems. Is this true?

I wouldn't trust 50 gig of 20 years worth of financial data to NT, would you?

>Thus if one only has DBA experience on NT, is MS SQL the only likely
>opportunity?

If you don't know any unix, it might be hard to get work in a unix enviroment. But 'enough unix for your resume' is not that hard to get, especialy if you'd work at a larger operation with a (couple of) full time unix admins. Just get a copy of linux and a good book and you'll be going for that $100,000.- a year job running Sybase on solaris, HPUX or whatever in no time. They are 95% the same as linux. Too bad the 5% is the anoying 5%, like having to work with a 20 year old shell on solaris that doesn't know what commands you typed last and such things. So you'll end up compiling and installing hundreds of utils that make life easy on a standard linux distribution yourself.

Bas. Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 04:52:03 CDT