I think the communications skills versus technical skills and apples to oranges comparison. It's why I separated out the differences.

I've come across hundreds of 'DBA' whom I...

Yea, the real world aspect, is if they are 'that' good, they will move onto either high priced consulting or higher level job which kind of moves away from the...

On the soft skills side a DBA is a bridge between so many layers of business, a dba can touch on development, operations, and the individual business units and internal...