Joseph B. Welsh on 20 Oct 2003 12:09:02 -0400


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On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:58, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Barry Roomberg wrote:
> 
> > Note:  Everything you've said still tells me you are a nubie.  It felt like  
> > you claimed to be a DBA in your previous post but now you tell me you really 
> > do almost nothing.  But you are a known nubie who is trying.
> 
> But Barry the thing you forget is the job title "DBA" does not carry with 
> it an assumption of great depth of experience in shell scripting.  You of 
> all people should be very familiar with the concept of having a DBA who 
> can't script their way out of a paper bag.  Many times, especially in 
> start up companies or smaller shops, a sysadmin or a developer who is 
> least afraid of the RDBMS is shoved forcefully into the role of DBA and 
> then has to ask questions in forums like this one about what kind of stuff 
> they need to learn to survive in this new role.

We have a really small Oracle DB (< 1.5gb of  data).  I honestly did
more work in Oracle in class than I do here. 

Another point is that in the Oracle 9i DBA certification track they
don't teach Unix scripting at all.  One reason is because you can be a
DBA running on the Windows Paltform (I personally wouldn't want to try
that, but it is done).


Joe



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