In another unrelated thread, I mentioned that on an average I put it in
about 40-42 hours a week. At times I have to put in a lot more. Many a times
it is difficult to charge hours to end user departments (we have charge back
system) for lack of real work. Self study & Training is one category to
charge to within our own Dept. But too much of its use gives a wrong
impression to the Damagement. I still charge a hefty amount to it. Some day
they may figure it out..
Anyway, since early today I have been migrating 4 databases (~40-50 GB each)
to 8.0.6.0 (from 7.2.3 and 7.3.4) to a different server while performing
restructuring of 3. I am not complaining of non stop long hours. But from
Monday, I will be back to 8.1.6 experimentation & self studying.. As Joe
said, it pays to know more..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph S. Testa [SMTP:teci_at_oracle-dba.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:16 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Your frank opinion
>
> Deepak, my latest job, i have to agree with you, most weeks its less
> than 40, rarely ts more than 40.
>
> reason that i've come to conclusion is this:
>
> they pay me for what i know, not necessarily what i do, knowledge is
> power(and money these days).
>
> they catch is this: dont get stale, read the new documentation when it
> comes out, buy books, read them and stay on top of the new stuff.
>
>
> Here is a prime example:
>
> while at IOUG-A in may, i was paged about a partitioned table, they
> wanted to move rows between the partitions(ie: change the key value), by
> dafault you can't do that, so they were panicked enough to potentially,
> unload millions of rows, change the key value during the unload,
> truncate the table, and reload all the data.
>
> I was studying for 8i OCP exam and had just read about
> alter table <table_name> enable row movement;
>
> by default row movment is disabled.
>
> so they pay me for what I know :)
>
> my 2 cents worth.
>
> joe
> Deepak Sharma wrote:
> >
> > How many of the DBAs out there frankly work more than
> > 40 Hrs a week on an average ? I have seen DBAs,
> > specifically contrators (I'm one myself) put in 10 or
> > 12 Hrs a day on the paper. In reality, it's the 10-12
> > Hrs they sit at work, either showing everyone how busy
> > they are or creating work out of nowhere so that they
> > could stay longer at work (and get the extra bucks).
> > We've all had our chances working 24-36 Hrs on stretch
> > in crisis situations, but in general, how much
> > significant work does a DBA have. Most of the time I
> > find it difficult to fill even the 40 Hrs in the
> > timesheet. My favorite activity !! Browse this list.
Received on Fri Jun 02 2000 - 22:12:42 CDT
