Re: table disk usage?

> well he probably doesnt want to get laid off either. BTW, most DBA jobs on
> the market these days pay under $80k, if not ALOT lower. Ive seen jobs out
> there looking for people with 5 years experience and paying $45k.
>

I know people making that doing Crystal Reports. Any DBA that will work for 45K is cutting their own throat.

> not sure its a good idea to tell a guy at a company who laid off a high
> skilled laborer to fail. if they can lay off the DBA, they can lay him off
> and replace him.
>

Of course they can lay him off. They can also send him for training. They can also
pay him more to compensate him for the additional workload. They can also burn the company to the ground with car flares.

My point is that bad things can happen everytime you wake up in the morning ... but
so what. He might do everything right and still get laid off. But to try to cover for a bad
management decision, even as some have suggested with a GUI tool as though that was
a substitute for knowledge, is a fool's logic.

The decision to let the DBA go and not provide a replacement was a bad decision. It is
not a bad decision made in isolation among a lot of intelligent, well thought-out, competent
decisions. A few more like this and the OP may be the last man standing at a bankrupt company.

As the Pole's said a few years back ... It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's
knees. He should not take on what he can not do well. Better to be laid off and get
unemployment that to be fired and not.
Daniel Morgan

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