IT Employment
by lordinfidel
A DBA, be it oracle or sql, commands big bucks.
As far as jobs, that's hard to say. Obviously a company only needs 1 full time dba, where as they will usually have a small army of programmers.
It depends on what you love the most. If you find database architecure fascinating then go with the dba. If you lean more towards heavy programming then go with the developer.
I was actually having this sort of discussion with my progammers the other day. And while a dba can crossover and be a programmer and vice versa. It's really about what you are concentrating on. But you really can't be a dba without knowing programming. And you can't be a good programmer without understanding 'conceptually' how databases function.
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