Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed.news2me.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: sfitzgerald@centurytel.net (Sean Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle DBA opening in San Diego, CA Date: 10 Oct 2002 13:28:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 15 Message-ID: <605a2fd5.0210101228.3c548520@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.199.127.25 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1034281720 20291 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2002 20:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2002 20:28:40 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:163777 X-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:28:36 MST (news.easynews.com) > If anyone read their last couple of Computerworld issues, they would know > that Home Depot has big plans for Data Warehousing ($10M +) and also the > retooling of all their PC desktops (an order for 40,000 HP desktops). There > was also a mention of doubling their DBA complement from 25 to 50. > > While I am sure there are probably five or ten SD area people qualified as > Oracle DBA's, finding 25 might be a problem. One thing Home Depot's > recruiter needs to learn is (a) specify OCA/OCP as appropriate in addition > to real world experience, and (b) specifiy Development or Production DBA > (since the two roles are really quite different). > > John Roberts Unfortunately, according to my latest InformationWeek magazine, Home Depot has chosen DB2 for their database (along with some IBM servers).