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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question
Lisa,
Oracle DBA's make good designers as they know the ins and outs of what first makes a healty database. And that is good data thats easy to query and stored properly. I know DBAs appreciate having ERD's and complete schema creation scripts. The fact that you have DBA skills means you won't create a fetid steaming pile that someone else has to deal with. That is worth a lot to a company...
Good luck
Brad O.
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Hello everyone,
Well I've been "reassigned". I was responsible for the completely
messed up Peoplesoft Oracle/AIX environment but management here decided
that it was more important to separate a husband and wife that both work
in the same department, and assigned one of them to be primary support
in this environment instead of me. (sshh: The new person who is
primary doesn't know a thing about Unix.) My primary job is now
suppossed to be data modeling and data warehouse/mart design, moving on
into Problematica (er, Informatica) development into a Sql Server
database. I will not be the admin on the Sql Server database. My new
boss referred to this as "database architecture". ?? What? They have
already decided what they want done and just want someone to take the
pretty pictures and implement them with unrealistic deadlines.
The main reason why I am upset is because it seems to me that data
modeling is such a "soft" skill. I am concerned about keeping my skills
up to date and keeping my hands in an Oracle environment, whether it's a
mess or not. Seems to me that data modeling alone isn't something that
can land you a new job or really spiff up your resume. I think that
having a finite list of skills (Oracle, Unix, Windows 2000, Erwin,
Project, crap like that) is more what employers search for, and is what
HR depts can easily deal with.
Am I wrong? This job pays well and working for a huge company has it's
benefits, if you can deal with the bureaucracy similar to what is
described in the 1st paragraph. And I know in this market I am just
lucky to have a job.
And please tell me if I'm whining. I may just need a KITA. Who knows
anymore...
Lisa Koivu
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