On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Thalis Kalfigkopoulos <tkalfigo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > > In particular how does one go about starting as a Pg DBA? Is the most > common case by migrating from another DBMS? I work for a (very) small company, so by nature we're all generalists. I basically got the DBA job charlieocratically[1] - that is, I was pushed into the position, having been the primary apologist/evangelist for Postgres. My main job is software developer, but of the team who write database access code, I'm the one who generally (a) is the go-to guy for schema advice, and (b) gets asked to ensure that the database will perform adequately under crazy load on crazy hardware. (And just FYI, everything said on this list about Amazon EC2/EBS performance is right; a mid-range Dell laptop can outperform an Amazon Micro instance, and the fatter instances still don't do all that well, bang-for-buck.) Be good at databasing, then get any sort of IT job, and you'll likely end up being or helping the DBA. [1] See my blog for a definition of that term: http://rosuav.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/world-is-full-of-charlieocracies.html ChrisA -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
