Quote Originally Posted by wannabelean
Its all in the subject folks. Coming from an MSCE background, the programming I've done is very little to nothing and it certainly does not interest me whatsover. I'd like to know if you guys think its a good idea to go the DBA way keeping in the view the circumstances.

Thank you and I look forward to all your opinions

R
What do you do when there is a need to script something? Will you be asked to write any database triggers, or pl/sql code to log things in the database? At some point taking a no coding perspective will hurt you. But it mostly depends on what you want out of the job and who you work for. But try not to limit yourself too much. You should try to learn a few languages from shell scripting in Bash, a little perl, or even some Java. If you don't you might end up doing really basic support.