>From: DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org>
> > I rather think the analogy would be with a pub/bar owner, you might not
> > like AB beers, but you'll probably want to sell them.
> >
> > I don't personally like the analogy, prostitution and the arms trade
> > both pay better than my job, and have more opportunities, but I wouldn't
> > be regarding that as a reason to work in either of them.
>
>I agree. But given you are already a carpenter ... and there are jobs
>available ... seems to me you would want to train for those jobs that
>offer the most opportunity. I know very few carpenters who are looking
>for work manufacturing birdhouses. In our business that means Oracle
>and SQL Server. It isn't that there is anything wrong with building
>bird houses. Just that they account for less than 20% of available work.
>--
>Daniel A. Morgan

Well Danny boy, that should tell you something. Well actually a couple of
things.

1) Oracle means job security. Why? Because you need to keep your physical
DBA always on the job to keep the system up.

2) Companies that use Oracle tend to blame their DBAs so that they go
through them faster. IDS DBAs tend to move on out of boredom. Or that they
don't like their management adding more work outside of the maintenance of
IDS. They tend to get stuck with Data Security Manager or Director of
Information Security. That sort of thing.

3) Compare the Oracle DBA to the plow horse. Dumb and there to do the job.
The IDS DBA is the farmer or the brains behind the operation.

No Wait. Did I just compare the Oracle DBA to a Jack ass? Ooops. Maybe I
did...

My Bad... ;-)

-G

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