Thursday, October 26, 2017

DBA Categories from Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar shared a post on the categories for a SQL Server DBA.
NOTE that these overlook things like BI or data scientist professionals, which are not usually considered part of the DBA span of work

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/09/hire-junior-dba/

The most interesting part, to me, was this chart:
(Credit - BrentOzarUnlimited.com)

I like the way he breaks this up to Database Developer, Development DBA, and Production DBA.
This seems to reflect the reality that I see in our own business as well as in some others.

DBT-50000 when using DBCA.bat on Windows (Oracle 19.11)

I’ve been having some trouble getting DBCA to run in order to create databases. Thought I’d share it with you, and thus document it for la...