October 6, 2010 at 4:47 pm
one of my friend has started his career from sql programmer>Jr DBA>DBA and now he is a Sr.DBA he has the opputunity to grow in his company but the thing is there is no big team over there and he is looking for promotion, so trying to undersatnd what would be his next position?
Is there any heirarchy levels for this career or is it better to concentrate at business level?
October 6, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Senior DBAs don't advance, they just learn more...
... or end up in management.
Never stop learning, even if it hurts. Ego bruises are practically mandatory as you learn unless you've never risked enough to make a mistake.
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October 6, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Some possible paths would be to either broaden his scope and move into an Architect position, or specialize and do consulting in a specific area like data security, performance tuning, data warehousing, or cloud data environments.
I went from DBA to architecture to management and now I'm working back into DBA roles again because I find I get more personal reward out of the DBA role than either architecture or management.
October 6, 2010 at 5:33 pm
David Webb-200187 (10/6/2010)
Some possible paths would be to either broaden his scope and move into an Architect position, or specialize and do consulting in a specific area like data security, performance tuning, data warehousing, or cloud data environments.I went from DBA to architecture to management and now I'm working back into DBA roles again because I find I get more personal reward out of the DBA role than either architecture or management.
I guess I always found architect to end up at the top side of the developer path, rather then the DBA path. Hm. I'll have to think on that.
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October 6, 2010 at 6:17 pm
thats a good reply but that guy planning for architect as that would get more pay for him hoping that he would minise day to day activites and concentrate more on building servers and layout database and fine tune them, advise on desgining and much more like that activities in that role. I am also kind interested to see his carer graph as i have learnt many things from him.
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