RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion

As someone who may very well be laid off next week, I'm very appreciative of the article. ;-)

One caveat -- Junior DBA's don't fare as well. Everyone and their brother seem to want at least 2 years experience. Luckily for me I've been doing this for a long time, but some of my former employees are having difficulty.

Another weird thing -- here in RTP, there seem to be alot of people who up and decide one day to become DBA's. They shell out the thousands of bucks for all of the Oracle classes, get OCP certified, THEN try to find a job. With zero experience. I find that odd, but I guess it's one way to get into it...

Again, thanks!

Diana Duncan
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FYI, I found this on the computerworld web site:

Database administrator

                     "It's not that it's a hot one," Mark Krusinski at
Emerald Resource Group Inc. in Broadview
                     Heights, Ohio, says about database administrators


(DBA). "It remains constant. It's not

                     weakening." 

                     DBAs - particularly for Oracle - can always get a job,
according to recruiters. The demand for
                     Oracle administrators is highest, but Microsoft Corp.'s
SQL Server is growing, even at
                     high-transaction firms that should be Oracle Corp.'s
bread and butter. And every recruiter
                     seems to have some base of clients that use Sybase,
Informix or DB2. And watch out for
                     IBM's new product later this year. 

                     The bottom line is that no company subtracts DBAs; they
only add more, gradually, as their
                     departments grow. 

                     "There's actually more need for that than ever before
because the rest of the organization is
                     screaming for that data," says Jones. She points out
that DBAs sometimes become necessary
                     in new data architecture or warehousing projects. 

The URL is
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV64_STO57985,00.html <http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV64_STO57985,00.html>

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
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