Well, yes and no. Yes, we do put fires out, but if we are any good,
we first discuss the approach to the extinguishing fire, then we
discuss the equipment needed, then ask for the references for the chosen
equipment and then we create a project plan for putting the fire out, not
forgetting to include resources, deadlines and personnel needed for the job.
By the time we are done with the fire, everything was just burnt to the
ground. In the meantime, there is an ample opportunity for actually talking
to the vegetation on fire.
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 4:17 PM
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Ahh ... but the real DBA, when they get to the top of the mountain and see a
burning bush ... talking or not talking ... treat the burning bush as just
another daily fire drill and puts the fire out.
After all ... isn't what we do every day anyway ??
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:56 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Nope. DBAs are chosen, not trained. To become a good DBA one must
go to Mt. Sinai and talk to a burning bush. If the bush talks back,
then the applicant will have the power to split the seas of data into
partitions. Instead of appealing to pharaoh to let his people go, the real
DBA uses the phrase "will you, please, lay off that @#! beeper and leave me
alone?". DBAs communicate with the developers/users in terms of
commandments.
Disobeying them can have excruciating consequences for all those who dare to
disrespect a DBA. To make, the long story short, being a DBA is a calling
and
not a job.
Sincerely yours,
BDBAFH
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:41 AM
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At 09:50 PM 6/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do
>you actually want to learn database administration?
>
To a large extent I agree with you about the relative unimportance of paper
qualifications. However, one thing that a formal course of study is good
for, is to make you aware of all the nooks and crannies of your chosen
subject. For instance, if you are self-taught, and the subject of
replication never comes up, you may never even *know* that it exists. Or,
unless you are very self-disciplined, you may never do anything with crash
recovery until actually presented with the need (a bad time to be learning
it, IMO).
So if you are going to go the self-study route, have a formal plan of some
kind -- whether it's getting hold of the course curriculum for Oracle
courses, of just getting some good DBA books and going through them
beginning to end.
Dennis Taylor
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Living with a saint is harder than being one.
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