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Paul what you have posted doesn't make a lot of sense.
Something about measuring database market penetration by how many job ads there are?
On the DB2 side, many of the people who are DB2 DBA's have been doing it for a relatively long time and don't often switch jobs. So that would impact any chance for anything meaningful for what you are talking about.
That's really pretty similar on the oracle side except there is somewhat more movement from company to company of people with Oracle DBA job skills.
On the SQL Server side, there are 2 questions involved, how many real SQL Server DBA jobs are there out there as opposed to developers who also support SQL Server, and how often does a company train/promote internal candidates into the SQL Server role. Certainly there are times when a company does actually hire from outside to support SQL Server but as a general rule I don't think so.
I guess you could attempt to make some kind of case to be able to measure "market demand" "when hiring from outside" but I don't think you could go any further than that. Received on Fri Oct 21 2005 - 12:21:51 CDT
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