Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
From: David Fitzjarrell <oratune_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1399387462.79852.YahooMailNeo_at_web124703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
I lived in Schaumburg back in '72 and went to high school there. I'd love to go back and see how it's changed. A question for the DBA lunch crowd: "What excites you about being a DBA?" David Fitzjarrell Primary author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide" On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:38 AM, Mark Bobak <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> wrote: “What’s the most challenging problem you’ve faced, be it a complex database recovery, a difficult performance problem, etc?” -Mark From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> Reply-To: "jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com" <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM To: Oracle-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried something new last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members. The interviewee answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around each question to a few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still plenty of time for the usual techy chatter afterwards. My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything, what would you ask? Here are the four questions we've used so far: 1. how'd you get started with the oracle db? 2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on in your career? can you tell us a bit about the architecture? 3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author? 4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in 5-10 years? BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown next wednesday. Just in case anyone is interested in joining. :) -J -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1399387462.79852.YahooMailNeo_at_web124703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
I lived in Schaumburg back in '72 and went to high school there. I'd love to go back and see how it's changed. A question for the DBA lunch crowd: "What excites you about being a DBA?" David Fitzjarrell Primary author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide" On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:38 AM, Mark Bobak <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com> wrote: “What’s the most challenging problem you’ve faced, be it a complex database recovery, a difficult performance problem, etc?” -Mark From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> Reply-To: "jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com" <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM To: Oracle-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried something new last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members. The interviewee answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around each question to a few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still plenty of time for the usual techy chatter afterwards. My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything, what would you ask? Here are the four questions we've used so far: 1. how'd you get started with the oracle db? 2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on in your career? can you tell us a bit about the architecture? 3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author? 4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in 5-10 years? BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown next wednesday. Just in case anyone is interested in joining. :) -J -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
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