allin1 (11/29/2010)
I am at teh start of my career as DB Dev/DBA (2 yrs). I am in a small company with no challenging work. I was wondering what would be a more idealistic work environment for a DBA ? I am looking for a workplace where I get a lot of diversity exposure and challnge? I dont want to be so ideal sleeping n reading news papers in da office in my early years of career.
I agree with Craig. Building on his comment I would say critical/large environments with astringent SLAs provide the more fun... and stress.
Anybody can keep a 50 Gig 8am-to-5pm database in good shape; fun begins when you have to keep in good shape a multiterabyte, 24x7 database doing 80K execs per second and all you get is a two hours maintenance window twice a month.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
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