What kind of tech skills required as DBA besides Oracle?

[qingbo]

Hi, DBA gurus:

I want take training courses to stregthen my DBA skills and marketability. What courses would you guys recommend other than Oracle courses?

1. perl
2. shell programming
3. system administration
4. ???

[marist89]

Marketability? - Learn perl
DBA Skills? - Learn Systems Admin & shell programming

[dragon99]

Based on what you listed above, I would go with
1. Shell Programming
2. Sysadmin
3. Perl
4. Java???

[sreddy]

How relevant Java for DBA Skills ? Iam curious.

One needs rest of all(PERL,SHELL Scripts, SYS Admin stuff) for automating DBA tasks across the network and in day-to-day life. I don't see the reason for havin Java skills other than exposure one need, to configure 8i/9i for Java usage.

[marist89]

I think in about two years Java in the database will be extremely important to know. I take the same approach today with Java as I did with PL/SQL about 5 years ago; I don't need to know it all, but I need to understand what is going on.

[marist89]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by sreddy [/i]
[B]How relevant Java for DBA Skills ? Iam curious.
[/B][/QUOTE]

Check out [url]http://www.dbazine.com/edba2.html[/url] for one opinion...

[xyz2000]

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