DBA的小蝦米,每天聽show好福氣.各個地方不一樣,不到三年不要離

一個多月前找了這份工,是APPLICATION DBA,做的東西實在太簡單了.
-- Congratulations! You are so lucky!
-- Yes, DBA job is pretty dumb, with several limited command, you use it agin and again. If you have any problem which you don't know how to solve, Oracle Support is always behind you, they can always give the answer.

環境倒真不錯,離家近,同事關係和諧,上班就像來聽COMEDY SHOW,整天有人講笑話,連我老板都會不時唱唱歌什麽的.
-- Somebody pay you $$$ to enjoy the show everyday? I wish I am 小蝦米!!!
-- Enjoy it, enjoy it! You are so lucky!

可是就是工作沒有挑戰性.就配合DEVELOPER,對DATABASE做些簡單的修改.
-- Do run the script which developers asked you to run, blame them if the code can't scale up on production later on;
-- Of course you also need review the code and tell them this is piece of junk which works well in a small test/dev environment but will fail once enroll into production and once the concurrent users increased to more than one million users;
-- They may not believe you in the first time, but once their users reached more than one million three years later, they will know what you said is true and you are not in there any more. (Too bad!)
-- Use your speared time read Oracle document, read any Oracle books you can get, for example: Oracle RAC, Oracle trouble shooting, Oracle performance tuning;
-- Still fell bored? Do you know the answer of following questions?
?? If I have a 10 nodes Oracle 10g RAC running on Sun Solaris 9 right now, how do I add the 11th node which is using Solaris 10?
?? I have a primary Oracle 10g RAC database which is running with Solaris 9, Can I set up a Physical stand by with Solaris 10?
?? How do I find corrupted blocks in the database?
?? I observed high volume of wait event in the database named: "enq: HW", what is the problem and how to get rid of it?
-- You will earn more $$ for your next job if you find the answer for all the above questions, so it is a good time to prepare it now for the interviews in three years later.

考慮到將來,不知道是否該換換?目前這個項目還有三年的合同期,是先輕鬆三年還是該盡早離開?
-- This is a no-brainer's question, of course STAY!!!

不知道其他DBA都工作忙嗎?
-- It depends.
-- If you support and maintain the 24x7 mission critical production system, your job is very serious, but you are not busy most of the time, because the system can't be down. People even don't know there is a DBA in the company. So you enjoy vacation every day.
-- However, once the production has problem, for example, Sun Server CPU Ecache problem, you will be called immediately no matter where you are. That can happen in the Thanksgiving night when you are in the Mall to do the Black Friday early morning shopping. That can also happen during you watching the show of Celebrate the 60 year's birthday of our motherland. Whenever this happened, you have to login immediately and solve the problem immediately, otherwise the business will stuck.
-- How lucky you are to be a Application DBA, you do not have to deal with this kind of problem. Therefore, STAY, enjoy life for al least three years!

還是就像老土說的那樣:DBA錢多工作輕鬆?
-- Glad to see you are on a DBA job which is listed near "Computer Scientist" on the book of The most demand job in the coming 10 years;
-- Glad you have a job which somebody pay you pretty good $$ and watch nice show everyday!
-- Glad you have a job which you can always jump easily if you don't like the current place.
-- There are almost half million large enterprise companies in the world where Oracle Application/database is being used, it is no problem for you to find another job in any big city where you would like to live, so what is your worry? STAY! STAY! STAY!
Thanks!