Nuno, I 100% agree....There are aspects of the dba job that are as state as they could get and no amount of gloss/pretty GUI would make it appear better. The worrying part is that, of late, even the oracle manuals have become more GUI oriented and the under-the-hood mysteries can at times baffle even the experienced DBAs. -Rajeev On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I think that a long time DBA that has become stale is the worst DBA. > There is a fundamental difference between a stale dba and > the job being stale by itself. This might come as a surprise > to those used to the clickety-click of OEM but dbas actually > do not need graphics to work out how to manage disk space > in a database. The subject has been part and parcel of dba > work for more than three decades, long before even Oracle itself > existed. In that sense the job is itself stale. Of course, > we may flash it up with spiffy graphics to make it look new, > but it's still fundamentally the same thing. > > Cheers > Nuno Souto > dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l