You are not saying that Oracle DBA certificate is like a piece of toilet
paper, are you?
"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
news:1138903333.205246_at_jetspin.drizzle.com...
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
>> I consider it a worthy goal to get from a mess to babysitting.
>
> Though with Grid Control in 10g you shouldn't be babysitting. You
> should productively spending your time improving emergency preparedness
> procedures, verifying that your backups can actually be used to
> recover, attending meetings to keep managers from buying stupid
> off-the-shelf products, and monitoring the activities of development
> to make sure they aren't going down the wrong path.
>
> Let the Grid's alerts ... tell you when you need to take a look.
>
>> I agree, adequate SQL abilities are necessary. I'm not convinced
>> super-duper SQL abilities are necessary, unless the DBA is directly
>> involved with SQL development.
>
> I am. I know a lot of DBAs that can't write a decent PL/SQL block and
> they rarely if ever do code reviews, have no ability to understand
> wither COTS software (commercial off-the-shelf) is well written or a
> pile of junk, are generally marginal at tuning, and are incapable of
> helping development do things such as move from cursor loops to array
> processing.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
Received on Mon Feb 06 2006 - 20:57:01 CST
