Re: what sort of dba can you get for 100K nowdays


"NetComrade" <netcomradeNSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I interviewed a few of interestig people with 5-10 years as Oracle DBA
in the past few days over the phone.

You'd expect most DBAs to realize that (besides CPU) the most common
bottleneck in any database is IO.

None knew their current file system block size (but few knew oracle's
block should be a 'multiple' of file system block)
Most could not really elaborate on relationship
db_file_multiblock_read_count and their RAIDs and OS
None could really talk about file system options (asynch and/or
directio), even though most worked on different platforms
None were actually using the 10g disk management, in which case they
could probably care less about everything above. (one guy actually
told me he recommended buying a bigger disk array when they had 'io
issues')

Additionally, most couldn't really tell me much about latches.. and
one of the guys didn't even know the difference between latches and
locks.

More than half couldn't really tell me much about what they'd be
looking for in statspack (some never even used it).

Is it too much to ask for 100K salary? I don't consider myself an
oracle genius, nor do I don't mean to 'bash' the people I interviewed,
but would these not be the basics for even a Jr. DBA? is 100K not even
a Jr. DBA salary anymore (the position is in NYC).

Granted, the pool of resumes I got seemed to not have a single DBA
coming from a 'high usage' environment, so most probably never needed
to tune too much.. but, imho, these are still fairly basic things
everyone should know..


Is 100K a lot for the cost of living in NYC?


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