April 15, 2006 at 5:15 am
Now a days what is the value of DBA? i am asking because i am planning to go for DBA so only if it having own value. I am spftware eng. and in implementing ERP software.
What i suppose to do?
April 15, 2006 at 11:30 am
Go for DBA if you want to be a DBA. The talent pool and market needs change often enough that by the time you're really good at it, the money situation may be very different than it is now.
If you're only going after it for the money, you'll suck at it and so will your pay. In order to be good at it, there are some significant things to learn that are *painfully* boring to most people. Those who go on to become good (and usually well-compensated) DBAs really like the stuff and eat it up. (For an illustration, try to catch a good DBA explain statistics to a normal - not a SQL specialist - developer. The DBA will be excited talking about them, but the developer's eyes will gloss over and they will look like they're being told about some strange infection you have. Same story when that DBA tries to explain the difference between index defrag vs. index rebuild to a sys admin.)
However if you like the stuff and want to get into it, then it generally pays better than software implementation.
Most 'pure' DBAs (meaning those who aren't sys admins who got drafted to also admin the SQL Server and do little more than run backups and fiddle with DTS) require decent T-SQL coding skills, so both admins and developers are usually adding to their skillsets by pursuing DBA skills instead of abandoning what they know to do something else. The lines continue to blur between raw DB Admins and raw DB Devs.
SQL skills are useful in far more settings than just being a DBA. They have important places on development and implementation teams as well. SQL developers can be great DBAs, DBAs can be great developers, and they both can go on to be great managers and CIOs. If you like SQL Server and digging into the guts of it, then you will gain value by doing so, even if you do not become a DBA.
Eddie Wuerch
MCM: SQL
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