• Excellent article, I totally agree, having worked as a sqlserver dba for about 3 years and working as oracle dba atm, it is a sad state of affairs when people can waltz into positions say they have 10+ years experience and end up falling flat when an emergency happens, it does nothing but give the rest of us a bad reputation and make it harder for the rest of us to find work. I have never considered your seniority to be based on service, but on experience gained and what you have learnt, i cut my teeth basically on replication and disaster recovery so i suppose i consider myself senior as regards to what sort of dba i am, what can you do, i cannot say i am junior, it limits the work i can go for, knowing that complete idiots get into interview by stretching the truth on their cv, anyway enough of my rant, i liked the article and thought it was very relevant

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