Re: Are Oracle GUIs causing a decline in DBA salaries?

Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.191701b35d952fc898975b_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net>...

> I'm sorry, but I must be missing something here.

You definitely are...

> Why are GUI users
> equated with unskilled, rank amateurs?

Who said they were?

> Why is something that makes my
> job easier a bad thing?

Who said it made your job easier? Ah, the vendor of the GUI tool... Of course!

> And what's wrong with providing tools to assist
> those who ain't an old goat like me (eg, newbie DBAs)?
>

Who says they assist? Ah, the vendor
of the GUI tool... Of course!

> I didn't use GUIs with Oracle 5, 6, or 7 ... any more than I used a GUI
> to write my Fortran or Cobol programs ... but I don't see how a DBA who
> uses a GUI today is _less_ skilled than one who doesn't. Using the
> command line doesn't make a DBA _more_ skilled than one who doesn't.
>

Who said he/she is more skilled? Ah, the vendor of the GUI tool... Of course!

> And in many cases, using a GUI does allow a DBA to do some tasks in half
> the time.

Prove it. Or are you trying to tell me that an "alter tablespace add datafile" runs faster if it is started by a GUI?

> If there's a GUI tool that helps me do my job, I use it. If
> there isn't a GUI tool available, then I do it the old-fashioned way.
>

The keyword there is "help". Remains to be proven that a GUI really "helps" anything. I'm sorry, but vendor claims don't cut the mustard with me.

> This idea that "real men don't use GUIs" is an old myth.

Oh, I've been in touch with my feminine side for a looooong time! :)

Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 18:02:49 CDT