To the Moderators and experienced DBA's..
As you can see from my registration date I am new to this site. However, I am not new to Oracle Database admin. I've always had the philosophy that there is always someone who is smarter than you are and I figured I'd find them here and continue to learn. I must say that I have found some very knowledgeable individuals here. But, that's not my reason for writing this. Every day that I come to this site and see some of the questions that people ask and I have to think to myself "and these people get paid?". Don't get me wrong I am a strong advocate of "there's no such thing as a stupid question" however, some of the questions people ask here are ones that make me shutter. In my eyes being a DBA is a very important responsiblity and it is not something that someone can be just thrown into. We as DBA's are soley responsible for our companies data. If you think about it we could potentially cause a company to go bankrupt if we do not do our job correctly.
Personally, I kind of get a sadness (more like a laugh) from a person when he/she wants to know if they can copy datafiles off to the side when the database is open for a backup, because that tells me that the manager who hired them is just as in the dark if not worse and that all their data is going to go down the drain because that manager wasn't smart enough to send his pseudo DBA to get some formal training.
Am I the only one around here that feels this way?
