Re: DBA Skill tree

I think both jeremy and dan have
A point and most often when a DBA becomes comfortable with a system they tend 
not to favor change call it old school or lazyness but once an infrastructure 
is in place change is something that is dreaded I would give an example of ASM 
as I totally ignored it as being a fad until thought nothing about it till I 
got a chance to understand it but for most people or old school folks u spend 
too much time fighting the same fires to even 
Consider  technology and additional responsibilities that new skills
Might bring to the table 


Fuad


On Apr 3, 2009, at 20:26, Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

Dan Norris wrote:
While I agree that many "old school" DBAs could handle issues more readily than 
some newbies, I'd say that most of the "old school" DBAs I've encountered in my 
consulting travels are the "out of touch" type. That is, they have lost most of 
the theory and have maintained the same environment(s) for so long that the 
problems they can solve are the ones that happen regularly to them. They 
faint/fail at new or unknown issues. That is my personal experience and the new 
or unknown issues weren't particularly tough ones. I'd say I've been asked to 
provide help (consulting) to more "old school" DBAs than newbies over my years. 
However, that's probably also because the "old school" DBAs are often in larger 
shops that have bigger environments (and usually bigger problems to go with 
them).
To be fair, as a consultant your sample pool is a little weighted in that 
direction. The "in touch" old-schoolers don't call you - just the ones who are 
out of touch. There's probably a higher proportion of in-touch old-schoolers 
than what you would meet on the job, simply by the nature of what you do.

But to counter my own point, the "out of touch" old-schoolers are probably the 
ones on the job market most often...   :)

-Jeremy

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