Satar, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to take issue with this. Bad
English food is, I agree, fairly grim, but the same could be said of bad
food everywhere. Have you ever been to New Jersey? All they eat there
are chicken parm subs! London is one of the great places in the world if
you like eating, altho' quite expensive compared to Paris or Amsterdam.
If you can get the Sunday Times where you are, try reading the A A Gill
column every week for an idea of some good places to go. Incidentally,
one of the VPs at my last job was a friend of A A Gill's girlfriend (aka
"The Blonde"), but I never did get to meet him.
Now back onto the subject. Here, I count as part of the development
team, with simply a slightly different skill set to everyone else (SQL
rather than C++). It works pretty well. Of course, we are a software
house, and don't do much by the way of running 24/7 operations (altho'
of course our clients do).
Cheers,
g
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:48 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
As for me, this is my 3rd job as an Oracle DBA.
My first job was working for a Porno Company based out
of Beverly Hills, CA. It was a small company (130
internal employees and 200 outside employees aka phone
actress and actors) that owned the majority of the
phone sex lines (over 10,000 lines coming in). As the
DBA, I reported to the owner. I supported and worked
closely with the developers and network admins. But my
major tasks were to automate business practices and to
suggest ways to improve perversion efficiency.
My Second job was working for a national VAR (value
added reseller) company which had strong ties to Sun
Microsystems, IBM, HP, SGI, etc. I reported to the
Co-owner of the company. My job role was to work
closely with the system admins to implement enterprise
solutions for major corporations.
My current job involves a large international
Manufacturing company. As the DBA, I report to the CIO
of the company. Each division has a MIS manager. My
role is to provide support to each division (which
sucks because I have to travel a lot, especially to
the UK...no offense to the people of the UK, but the
only good thing about the UK that I like are the
PUBS!!! The weather, some people and food is another
story). My major tasks are to consolidate the
companies on a data level, which means I work closely
witht the ERP developers. I also make hardware and
software suggestions to ease operations.
Hope this helps! As far as being with the developers,
you will need to be with them regardless, either at
the beginning of development to make sure they don't
mess up the database or after development to fix the
problems that they did mess up.
Regards,
Satar
Please remember that TRUE muslims do not advocate
violence. Please do not displace your anger on
innocent muslims living in your local area.
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