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04-01-12, 23:30
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Admin or Developer?
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Hello,
I took a SQL course last semester in college and I did pretty good in it.
I heard Database related jobs have a good perspective. They will pay well and they they will be in demand.
I was wondering which one of the following has more positions for entry level :
Database Admin
or Database Developer
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04-02-12, 00:02
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Window Washer
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Jersey
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Data Architect
This massage is too short
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04-02-12, 08:48
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Annie's Dog Walker
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: at the bottom of the bottle
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I have been both a dba and developer. I prefer development. It seems to me that it requires less time outside of normal working hours, and fewer middle of the night phone calls. I think hardcore production DBA experience is a good thing to have because it will give you an edge of people who have not done it, but I just can not live like that. It is also that I prefer the creative aspect of development more than having to worry about job failures, and backups, and all of the more nuts and bolts tasks DBAs have to worry about. At 37, the Data Architect role still elludes me. It has been waiting as the next promotion at the last 2 jobs and even promised to me by a director at the lasrt company. It will probably never happen and I do not actively pursue it anymore. I almost have my walking away money.
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04-02-12, 09:17
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World Class Flame Warrior
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Ohio
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Quote:
Originally Posted by royhoja
I was wondering which one of the following has more positions for entry level :
Database Admin
or Database Developer
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Uhm....why don't you pursue the path that is more interesting to you?
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04-02-12, 20:31
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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@ blindman : I like them both... I think I will enjoy Developer more since you have to always learn new stuff as a developer.
@Thrasymachus: Do you think I will have more chances of getting an entry-level job as a developer or a DBA?
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04-02-12, 22:26
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I think it helps to become a developer first and then, if you still want to, become a DBA. I was hired as a DBA right after college (did all co-op work terms as a DBA as well), but many people I worked with did development prior to switching to DBA.
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04-03-12, 08:17
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Annie's Dog Walker
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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No idea. I would say you have to ALWAYS learn both stuff in both positions and in the technology field as whole. Your education is not ending. It is just begining. This field is a lot like being in school forever.
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“If one brings so much courage to this world the world has to kill them or break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Earnest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms.
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04-03-12, 20:53
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thrasymachus
No idea. I would say you have to ALWAYS learn both stuff in both positions and in the technology field as whole. Your education is not ending. It is just begining. This field is a lot like being in school forever.
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For some reason I am reminded of the wizard of oz.
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04-04-12, 11:18
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Window Washer
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Jersey
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Where to Start?
Try Quality Assurance Testing?
Actually, you could start by separating listing and mounting 6250's or load card decks
Or Pulling Cables for old mainframes that don't exist anymore (by crawling underneath the floor)
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04-04-12, 12:25
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brett Kaiser
Try Quality Assurance Testing?
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I've never done it, but I think it's not too much fun.
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04-04-12, 13:10
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Window Washer
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Jersey
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it could be, if you are into blowing up code that you know some scrub developer is writing. It is also a good foundation to be a very good developer
The biggest thing I hear around is
"Oh, THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN"
Well it usually does, and at the worst possible time
ALWAYS code for every contingency
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04-04-12, 13:27
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Wage drone 24601
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Massachusetts
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Even more than "Well, it worked on my laptop."?
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04-04-12, 14:30
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Annie's Dog Walker
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: at the bottom of the bottle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Brett Kaiser
it could be, if you are into blowing up code that you know some scrub developer is writing. It is also a good foundation to be a very good developer
The biggest thing I hear around is
"Oh, THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN"
Well it usually does, and at the worst possible time
ALWAYS code for every contingency
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I would donate a kidney for a rockstar Quality Assurance person right now. The really good ones can code, and load test, and write automated tests, and they are like all star shutdown NHL Goalies, and the measure of yourself as a develepor is getting shots past them. As much as I have cursed them at the time, I miss them dearly now.
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“If one brings so much courage to this world the world has to kill them or break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Earnest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms.
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09-04-12, 03:02
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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database developer is easier to find entry jobs.. being database admin needs more responsibility that is not available at an entry job
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09-04-12, 16:11
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There are no "entry level" database developer jobs anywhere i've supported. Same thing for DBAs. Some level of experience is required for these positions.
And i suppose one should consider just exactly what is a "database developer"?
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