roger clarke (6/20/2007)
Well, I'm afraid I am not at all impressed with this article ... just one more example of the painting by numbers crowd who will never really get it.There is actually only one question you ever need to ask a DBA and like the saying goes, if you have to ask .....
And I'm afraid that if anyone tried that AWE nonsense on me ... my starting salary just doubled
Say that again but slower? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Actually, the point I wanted to make is about the job posting. If you advertise for a "Sequal Data Base Administrator" (sic) then I'm not going to take you seriously. Get someone with a good grasp of written English (or whatever langauage you post it in) to check it. Also, if you ask for 5 to 10 years of experience in just about everything but only specify an average salary then how am I supposed to know whether you're going to revise the quality of the candidate you're after or the salary you offer? Something will have to budge - I've seen job postings like that repeated for months on end!
John