Re: RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.
Hi! Maybe this is off topic, but nevertheless it is relevant to our lives! With economies 'slowing down' globally can each of you please tell what is the 'general IT scene'and Oracle scene in particular, in your country? Thanks - Original Message -- Mandar Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:Mandar Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:20:28 -0800 Subject:RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A. Hi neena Hi All , I am in India . I am an OCP DBA (8i) having three years IT experience ( Oracle( 7.3, 8 ) and Developer2000 , OS - windows NT).Three months back I have joined one of the known company of India. The role of mine in the present job is of DBA. I have to handle two Oracle 7.3 databases on AIX of an application which is stable since last five years. As the application is stable I am not getting good / challenging exposure to DBA activities. First imp thing is that u always be in this situation. once the app becomes stable u will always find urself idle. 1. Design a Disaster Recovery plan doc for ur db 2. Write db health check routines 3. research and find out how fatal bugs in 7.3 can stop ur production site 4. find out what wld stop (techincally) from migrating to 8i 5. learn AIX My aim is to go to US . Can you guide me : Well the green paper is always yummy... 1.. How to get the list of good firms in US , to apply for a DBA post ? www.dbajobs.com www.dice.com 2. Shall I change my present job , just because the database is of older version ( which I was not knowing while joining ) ? change ur job if u dont hv work. not the question of version. its the question of what u know in that version. remember versions will keep on coming. by the time u come to US and settle here, it may be 9i, who knows. there r many gurus on this list who r masters in 7.x, cos that what their job demanded. i met a guy in LA who had worked for NASA and had been working on almost all types of unixes and oracle 7, was a dba, but hardly knew any features of 8i. well he didnt found a need to keep up to date. 3. Will certification of Sun Solaris System Administration be helpful to me? learning an OS never harms. it wld certainly add to ur resume. 4. Will an Advanced DBA course ( Oracle parallel server, Replication, distributed DB) be helpful to me ? where will u apply that? well u can always learn everything, but try to balance it against ur job requirements and in which sector of Oracle admin u want to excel. For a start why dont u try getting ur OCP in 8i. -- neena -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mandar Ghosalkar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cyril Thankappan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
Re: RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.
Hi! Maybe this is off topic, but nevertheless it is relevant to our lives! With economies 'slowing down' globally can each of you please tell what is the 'general IT scene'and Oracle scene in particular, in your country? Thanks - Original Message -- Mandar Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:Mandar Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:20:28 -0800 Subject:RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A. Hi neena Hi All , I am in India . I am an OCP DBA (8i) having three years IT experience ( Oracle( 7.3, 8 ) and Developer2000 , OS - windows NT).Three months back I have joined one of the known company of India. The role of mine in the present job is of DBA. I have to handle two Oracle 7.3 databases on AIX of an application which is stable since last five years. As the application is stable I am not getting good / challenging exposure to DBA activities. First imp thing is that u always be in this situation. once the app becomes stable u will always find urself idle. 1. Design a Disaster Recovery plan doc for ur db 2. Write db health check routines 3. research and find out how fatal bugs in 7.3 can stop ur production site 4. find out what wld stop (techincally) from migrating to 8i 5. learn AIX My aim is to go to US . Can you guide me : Well the green paper is always yummy... 1.. How to get the list of good firms in US , to apply for a DBA post ? www.dbajobs.com www.dice.com 2. Shall I change my present job , just because the database is of older version ( which I was not knowing while joining ) ? change ur job if u dont hv work. not the question of version. its the question of what u know in that version. remember versions will keep on coming. by the time u come to US and settle here, it may be 9i, who knows. there r many gurus on this list who r masters in 7.x, cos that what their job demanded. i met a guy in LA who had worked for NASA and had been working on almost all types of unixes and oracle 7, was a dba, but hardly knew any features of 8i. well he didnt found a need to keep up to date. 3. Will certification of Sun Solaris System Administration be helpful to me? learning an OS never harms. it wld certainly add to ur resume. 4. Will an Advanced DBA course ( Oracle parallel server, Replication, distributed DB) be helpful to me ? where will u apply that? well u can always learn everything, but try to balance it against ur job requirements and in which sector of Oracle admin u want to excel. For a start why dont u try getting ur OCP in 8i. -- neena -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mandar Ghosalkar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). _ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cyril Thankappan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.
Hi neena Hi All , I am in India . I am an OCP DBA (8i) having three years IT experience ( Oracle( 7.3, 8 ) and Developer2000 , OS - windows NT).Three months back I have joined one of the known company of India. The role of mine in the present job is of DBA. I have to handle two Oracle 7.3 databases on AIX of an application which is stable since last five years. As the application is stable I am not getting good / challenging exposure to DBA activities. First imp thing is that u always be in this situation. once the app becomes stable u will always find urself idle. 1. Design a Disaster Recovery plan doc for ur db 2. Write db health check routines 3. research and find out how fatal bugs in 7.3 can stop ur production site 4. find out what wld stop (techincally) from migrating to 8i 5. learn AIX My aim is to go to US . Can you guide me : Well the green paper is always yummy... 1.. How to get the list of good firms in US , to apply for a DBA post ? www.dbajobs.com www.dice.com 2. Shall I change my present job , just because the database is of older version ( which I was not knowing while joining ) ? change ur job if u dont hv work. not the question of version. its the question of what u know in that version. remember versions will keep on coming. by the time u come to US and settle here, it may be 9i, who knows. there r many gurus on this list who r masters in 7.x, cos that what their job demanded. i met a guy in LA who had worked for NASA and had been working on almost all types of unixes and oracle 7, was a dba, but hardly knew any features of 8i. well he didnt found a need to keep up to date. 3. Will certification of Sun Solaris System Administration be helpful to me? learning an OS never harms. it wld certainly add to ur resume. 4. Will an Advanced DBA course ( Oracle parallel server, Replication, distributed DB) be helpful to me ? where will u apply that? well u can always learn everything, but try to balance it against ur job requirements and in which sector of Oracle admin u want to excel. For a start why dont u try getting ur OCP in 8i. -- neena -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mandar Ghosalkar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
