No worries Mladen. He is smarter than most horses.
Once upon a time DBA was the pinnacle of career advancement through programmer,
designer, business analyst, and software architect, often with a minor in
system administration.
With the injection of “junior DBA” (or operational DBA) as perhaps the majority
by headcount, the evolution is back to the beginning with many things that can
be automated or more effectively handled by offsite expertise leaving employee
DBAs who want to keep a career path becoming more full service again.
Great observation.
Now about transform centered design…
mwf
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To: Tefft, Michael J; JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DBA Job Functions
Well, DBA evolved into a general computing SME. DBA has to know basics of an
operating system, networking, security, storage and backup strategies. He or
she is also frequently tasked with planning DR tests and/or DR strategies,
which means that the DBA has to know a lot about backup, too. Tuning
applications and SQL statements is self implied, too. Basically, a good DBA
must be a stable genius (this is a US specific joke, I apologize bigly to those
who will stare blankly at that phrase.
On 03/02/2018 07:29 AM, Tefft, Michael J wrote:
At my last company, whenever there was a problem, the first place checked was
the database.
Because the DBAs were the ones who could provide answers.
The other tiers were generally in the dark.
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Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
Tel: (347) 321-1217
