User talk:Shaileshpatangay

I feel all innovations start with imaginations and idealizing them, where you would poise the art of administration and then start working towards implementing, giving a controlled and mathematical shape.

I did a small research on the number of jobs listed for database administrator using dice.com, tracking the demand for jobs for DBA positions and apparently I wasn’t surprised to notice that the average job listing grew from 2000 to 2800, over a period of 6 months.

Also I have noticed a huge difference in the pay scale’s for a junior, mid-level and senior DBA’s and this huge gap, was due to the skill levels, which these DBA’s were equipped with. Skill set can also be measured as quantity of qualifications and exposure, which a DBA has been handling and accomplished in his\her past.

Coming back to our original discussion, this signifies that companies out there are retaining more and more data for different purposes, resulting into increase in demand for DBA’s to maintain this data, but is today’s technology catering this demand through sophistication and automation ?.

This is where envisioning comes in the picture, “Need is the mother of innovation”.

In mid 14th century Leonardo DaVinci as a visionary, who made first studies designing automobiles and air planes, as he had more then 100 drawings related to how man could travel and fly. Which makes me firmly believe that the art of ideas is the starting point to every innovation.

As working in a company (StrataVia), which was involved into automation of database administration, gave me the edge to always have the exposure for having head to head comparisons between most of the database features available across different databases. Also working with different DBA’s gave me the understanding for how DBA’s think and the approaches, which are elected into a DBA’s day-to-day life.

There are different factors which contribute for becoming a successfully DBA, and I feel one of the most important characteristic would be being more creative with stimulating approaches.

Let’s take a case study, where a DBA is given a simple task of import\export task.

There are different routes from point A to point B, similarly for this database activity, probably there are many approaches to the gate of solution. Few of the different approaches a DBA has to choose from the following solutions.

MS SQL SERVER : DTS, import\export wizard, BCP, Select into.

ORACLE : Sql export, backup\restore, bulk copy method , Select into.

DB2 : EMS Data Export, backup\restore, select into table.

The question is, what procedure to be implemented? This is where the art of creativity, kicks-off, shaping a logical and sensible choice.

Finally my conclusion I would irrevocably say that database administration is a science born to art.

By Shailesh Patangay

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