Although I've been an Oracle DBA for some years (about 8), I had the
opportunity to learn SQL Server as Administrator on my previous company
(the "big" Manufacturing DB's were running on Oracle, the "small" on SQL
Server); now I handle both and that was the key for having my current job.
Some months ago I was on a process of moving to another company because of
several things, then on the company I worked decided to look around for
another DBA who could cover my position and it was very difficult to find
(at least in Mexico); there are many people with much more experience and
knowledge on Oracle than me, but low experience on SQL Server and the
opposite of course; they finnally had no other option than give me a better
offer so I decided to stay.
SQL Server has been growing a lot on the last 10 years, becomming a serious
competitor to Oracle (now not only on the license cost side, but also on
functionalily), and now that they are starting with a version for Linux,
they are entering to a new world with lots of possibilities (although the
will take some years to become a real DB competitor running on Linux).
For now, the salaries for SQL Server are still lower than Oracle, but the
difference is getting closer, probably in a couple of years they can become
the same; some years ago, a SQL Server DBA was not really a demanded role
because most of the basic DBA activities were performed by Developers, now
things are changing.
That's my own experience, of course.
Regards
David Ramírez Reyes
Profesión: Padre de Familia y DBA en mis ratos libres
Profession: Parent and DBA in my spare time
On 4 January 2017 at 05:01, Dragutin Jastrebic <orahawk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello List,
Since recently they were 2 similar discussions
https://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Oracle-DBA-to-PostGreSQL-DBA
https://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/OT-Job-Posts,6
I would like to start this one and hear your opinions about it.
Dragutin
