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  • July 14, 2017 at 8:31 am

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    jasona.work - Thursday, July 13, 2017 2:13 PM

    So reading the posts from Brandie about the job got me thinking (that was that smoke you were smelling...)
    My Oracle counterpart here, yesterday, mentioned that she'd basically had a mentor when she was first moving into Oracle, and she was quite surprised that I didn't have a mentor (beyond initially Google and eventually here.)  So, how many of you had what you would consider a mentor when you started moving into SQL?  Or, like me, did you start out as an accidental DBA and go from there?

    And, lastly, what would you estimate the median DBA salary in your area is (in whatever monetary units are applicable, I can handle converting on Google...)

    When I started out? Neither. I did all my studying myself because I was in a completely different industry. Then I started hopping onto websites like this and Tek-Tips to read and attempt (poorly) to answer questions with my newly gained knowledge. In fact, I don't think I ever really had a SQL mentor through my entire career, though I've tried to give back both locally and online. Somehow I muddled through and got jobs anyway. @=)

    Median salary in Jacksonville FL ... Hrm... I don't know. I'd have to look it up on Salary.com or something. I would guess approximately 80k, but I could be way off. And... Googling it, Glassdoor tells me $71,634. But remember that's median and I know several DBAs who said they were working 6 digit salaries. Of course some of them were working for real DBA-type sweatshops too with little PTO too. So there's always that trade off.

    EDIT: I should mention Glassdoor differentiates between different DBA levels. I think the above was "regular" or possibly junior DBA. Senior DBA is registering around 89k-91k median.

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