As IT departments are being downsizes and silo thinking is going by the way of the DODO, IT employees are being asked to acquire a boarder range of skills (the old jack of all trades master of none comes to mind).

Example:

A Database Manager at a local regional district maintains DB2, Oracle and MS SQL Server doing everything from low level DBA tasks to high level data modeling/database implementation tasks.

He also does .asp and j2ee web application development, systems analysis, etc.

I believe people thinking of starting a career in IT should beaware that DBA may be one of many skills they may have to acquire to become successful in IT.

That’s my opinion what’s yours?

Gee,
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Got to run, I am setting up a new Exchange Server on W2K.