Re: what sort of dba can you get for 100K nowdays

"NetComrade" <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net> wrote in message news:93d252hdub56fmbfkpfg9bvorbh6cfhcaj_at_4ax.com...
>I interviewed a few of interestig people with 5-10 years as Oracle DBA
> in the past few days over the phone.
>
> You'd expect most DBAs to realize that (besides CPU) the most common
> bottleneck in any database is IO.
>
> None knew their current file system block size (but few knew oracle's
> block should be a 'multiple' of file system block)
> Most could not really elaborate on relationship
> db_file_multiblock_read_count and their RAIDs and OS
> None could really talk about file system options (asynch and/or
> directio), even though most worked on different platforms
> None were actually using the 10g disk management, in which case they
> could probably care less about everything above. (one guy actually
> told me he recommended buying a bigger disk array when they had 'io
> issues')
>
> Additionally, most couldn't really tell me much about latches.. and
> one of the guys didn't even know the difference between latches and
> locks.
>
> More than half couldn't really tell me much about what they'd be
> looking for in statspack (some never even used it).
>
> Is it too much to ask for 100K salary? I don't consider myself an
> oracle genius, nor do I don't mean to 'bash' the people I interviewed,
> but would these not be the basics for even a Jr. DBA? is 100K not even
> a Jr. DBA salary anymore (the position is in NYC).
>
> Granted, the pool of resumes I got seemed to not have a single DBA
> coming from a 'high usage' environment, so most probably never needed
> to tune too much.. but, imho, these are still fairly basic things
> everyone should know..
>

Is 100K a lot for the cost of living in NYC? Received on Thu Apr 27 2006 - 18:51:02 CDT