On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Thalis Kalfigkopoulos <tkalfigo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd like to tap into the list's experience regarding the job of a DBA > in general and Pg DBA in particular. > > I see that most of the DBA job posts ask for Sr or Ssr which is > understandable given that databases are among a company’s most > valuable assets, but it is also an obvious catch-22. So I'd like to > ask the list's part- and full-time DBAs, if it's not too personal, how > they landed their jobs. > > Is it an easier and more common entry point to be a part-time DBA e.g. > perform DBA duties as part of being a U**X sysadmin? > > Is it more common to start as a developer and change focus to DBA? That's what I did. Way back in the days of pg 6.5 I helped build a corporate intranet and as the senior architect of all of it, I had to learn both how to admin unix boxes and keep a postgres db happy. I later learned other dbs (Oracle, db2, and a few others) because we were constantly interacting with them as the corporate intranet system. While it's common for dbas to specialize a lot on dbs like Oracle (just performance, or development, or 24/7 operation and so on) most pgsql dbas are, by necessity, generalists. Management often hires a large team for a database with $500,000 in licensing without batting an eye, but when the db is free, figure they can get by with 1 or 2 DBAs max. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
