RE: Oracle DBA future
- From: "Freeman, Donald" <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:09:03 -0400
I very rarely have a worrisome technical problem but have people
problems all the time. We are in the recruiting process right now and
focus on how a potential candidate would fit into the team. I am quite
happy to train the right candidate. Other people have mentioned
"ability to learn" as a requirement. I would also mention "judgment" as
a requirement. I don't want DBA's who are so cautious they are
paralyzed or so over-confident that they are reckless. I ask a lot of
what-if questions. At some point I want them to say, "I'd stop and
call for back-up." or "I'd call Oracle and open a TAR."
Donald Freeman
Database Administrator II
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department of Health
Bureau of Information Technology
2150 Herr Street
Harrisburg, PA 17103
dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kathy duret
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:56 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Oracle DBA future
If you are a db in a small organization you absolutely have to have
people skills!
And I would argue you still would need some people skills in a large
organization.
You need to ask people like System Administrators for things.
You will need to interact with HR for benefits
Your boss - you need to have good skills there or your review, etc will
suffer.
You might technicall be able to do all the right stuff but one slip of
the tougue could kill you!
My 2 cents.
Kathy
Srinivas Chintamani <srinivas.chintamani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
People skills Vs DBA
I have heard this opinion voiced a lot of times in my career,
that most DBAs are not inclined to dealing with people. They'd rather
spend their time tackling complicated TECHNICAL issues than deal with
people.
Is that something that anybody else on this list has
experienced?
Is it ok for a very talented DBA to be stunted in their people
skills? Why or why not ?
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