Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

Bas Scheffers wrote:

> On Sat, 22 May 1999 06:59:54 GMT, mkx_at_excite.com wrote:
>
> >It would seem that most DB2/Oracle/Sybase DBA positions are listed for
> >UNIX systems. Is this true?
> I wouldn't trust 50 gig of 20 years worth of financial data to NT,
> would you?
>
> >Thus if one only has DBA experience on NT, is MS SQL the only likely
> >opportunity?
> If you don't know any unix, it might be hard to get work in a unix
> enviroment. But 'enough unix for your resume' is not that hard to get,
> especialy if you'd work at a larger operation with a (couple of) full
> time unix admins. Just get a copy of linux and a good book and you'll
> be going for that $100,000.- a year job running Sybase on solaris,
> HPUX or whatever in no time. They are 95% the same as linux. Too bad
> the 5% is the anoying 5%, like having to work with a 20 year old shell
> on solaris that doesn't know what commands you typed last and such
> things.

Try using csh and turning your history on. Works with our Solaris. Other than that, ditto.

> So you'll end up compiling and installing hundreds of utils
> that make life easy on a standard linux distribution yourself.
>
> Bas.

Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 08:58:52 CDT