RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

From: Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:59:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00470563.20020530125915@fatcity.com>

okay, the definitive answer, from the soon to be released Oracle9i DBA 101, Theriault, Carmichael and Viscusi:

"This bit of humor was circulating around electronic mail a while ago. We don't know who wrote it, but it's a fun twist on an old joke: CIOs leap tall buildings in a single bound Are faster than a speeding bullet (rats, missed him again) Are more powerful than a locomotive
Talk to God

Sr. Managers leap short buildings with a running start Are faster than a BB gun
Are more powerful than a streetcar
Ask God questions

Midlevel DBAs can clear a single-story house most of the time Can outrun the arrows that users shoot at them, with a head start Get run over by bicycles
Beg God not to notice them

Junior DBAs trip over the stoop
Wonder why there are holes in their body Say ?Look at the choo-choo?
Make God mad by asking, ?What happens if I turn off the server??

Senior DBAs run through buildings
Eat the bullets
Throw the locomotive at the users
Are Oracle Gods (or Goddesses)!"

• "Orr, Steve" <sorr_at_rightnow.com> wrote:
  > <Speedy Gonzalez accent>
  > Senior DBA... isn't that someone from Spain?
  > </Speedy Gonzalez accent>
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:08 PM
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  >
  > by your definition I would say no one is a senior dba...
  >
  > there is too much in Oracle for one person to know it all, so every
  > DBA, no matter how experienced, is going to ask for help if they are
  > facing something new. I wouldn't say asking for help means you aren't
  > senior.
  >
  > I consider people like Cary, Gaja, Tim, Steve, etc etc (all the Oak
  > Table members) as well as a large number of people on this list as
  > senior. Yet I also see them asking questions on occasion. One
  > doesn't
  > wipe out the other
  >
  > Senior DBA to me is a DBA who can not just research the docs and
  > websites but who is able to THINK. This means putting together varied
  > and assorted pieces of seemingly unrelated information to solve a
  > problem. The ability to see a larger picture and to understand it.
  >
  > Rachel
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