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Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request

Posted in 2006

Topics: Server Administration, Clustering, Grid & MACH11

Serge Rielau — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

elanleblanc@yahoo.com wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > >> What does a RAC cluster give you that I can't get in Informix some other way? >> > An administrative headache? > More training classes for N-J. More DBA friends. Higher salary to buy a bigger house. How could any CFO resist? Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab WAIUG Conference http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html

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DA Morgan — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Serge Rielau wrote: > elanleblanc@yahoo.com wrote: >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >>> What does a RAC cluster give you that I can't get in Informix some >>> other way? >>> >> An administrative headache? >> > More training classes for N-J. > More DBA friends. > Higher salary to buy a bigger house. > > How could any CFO resist? > > Cheers > Serge Given your paycheck comes from IBM let me restate it another way. If Oracle technologies lead to more DBA friends and higher salaries for DBAs ... where would one expect DBAs to focus their attention? I don't see a lot of C level managment hanging around c.d.informix. Do you? -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org

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Obnoxio The Clown — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

DA Morgan said: > I don't see a lot of C level managment hanging around c.d.informix. > Do you? I'd be very worried if a C-level exec even knew what Usenet was, let alone hung around on a newsgroup ... it would mean he wasn't doing his job. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "I don't read newspapers anymore except the local rag which I do weekly to cheer myself trying to see if anyone I hate has been stabbed." -- Horribilis XVI -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.