RE: The future DBAs?

Interesting. I went to the local 2 year tech school to obtain my prominent A.D. in Data Processing. Out of the 130 or so in my class, only about half graduated. Most of the dropouts freaked when they got the rude awakening that "real" business computer work (at the time) was the likes of assembly and reading hex core dumps. And this was only a tech school...

A few years ago, I ran into an old grade school buddy who's a starving artist in NYC. To make ends meet, he took on a job as a DBA. "This computer stuff is EASY!", he said. His databases are all MS Access.

I wonder what ever happened to him...

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:54 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: The future DBAs?
>
>
> My comment is:
>
> Marketing based on false information can destroy people's lives.
>
> Can you imagine a clerk who decides to pay thousands of
> dollars to take
> computer courses, only to discover they can't do it, will go through?
> Wouldn't that turn their lives into a living Hell?
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin

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