Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything

  • From: "David Fitzjarrell" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "oratune@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: "Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:44:22 -0700 (PDT)

I lived in Schaumburg back in '72 and went to high school there.  I'd love to 
go back and see  how it's changed.

A question for the DBA lunch crowd:

"What excites you about being a DBA?"

 
David Fitzjarrell
Primary author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"

On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 8:38 AM, Mark Bobak <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
“What’s the most challenging problem you’ve faced, be it a complex database 
recovery, a difficult performance problem, etc?”

-Mark

From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 10:23 AM
To: Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything


We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried something new 
last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members. The interviewee 
answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around each question to a 
few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still plenty of time for the 
usual techy chatter afterwards.

My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything, what 
would you ask?

Here are the four questions we've used so far:

1. how'd you get started with the oracle db?

2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on in your 
career?  can you tell us a bit about the architecture?
3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author?
4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in 5-10 
years?

BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown next 
wednesday.  Just in case anyone is interested in joining.  :)

-J

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