Re: what sort of dba can you get for 100K nowdays

On Mon, 01 May 2006 13:37:40 -0400, NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net> wrote:

>On 27 Apr 2006 16:00:07 -0700, "BD" <bobby_dread_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>and none of them did.
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>>As a potential employer, I am curious - if you had to choose, which
>>would you value more? Someone who knew the theory of planning and
>>deploying the physical and logical database inside and out, or someone
>>who had seen enough problems to be able to handle himself
>>intelligently, and with a cool head, when something goes sideways in
>>Prod and he's suddenly put on the spot?
>

.. apologies.. this post wasn't finished before I hit the post button accidentally..

These things don't have to be mutually exclusive. Since the position is a Sr. DBA position (which requires taking over databases with very little 'training' time), I'd require someone with both experience, theoretical knowledge, eagerness to learn, eagerness to share the knowledge, being a bit of a 'hacker' when absolutely necessary (being able to patch together a temporary solution).

Other people think that I am picky, but 100K is not that bad of a salary, even in NYC, and IO and CPU are usually the biggest bottlenecks in the database, and I'd expect an experienced DBA to have a clue about the likely causes and likely solutions, instead of digging for them for hours/days.

Obviously we look for other (non-technical) traits, but there has to be some technical screening first, as a good DBA should have some grasp on Oracle internals.
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