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DBA007
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2009-02-14 : 08:12:45
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| Dear Masters, Iam new to the DBA field,as iam unable to take decission on which side i have to go;either on sqlserver or oracle.Can any one guide me which of them have good opportunites. |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
15732 Posts |
Posted - 2009-02-14 : 19:46:33
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| Why not learn both? You'll double your value in the job market. |
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savior faire
Posting Yak Master
194 Posts |
Posted - 2009-02-15 : 09:33:03
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| I asked the identical question in August 2007. I chose SQL Server over Oracle and Sybase.I received advice from some individuals in the field.They said learning Oracle was more than the technical side of the product, you had to know the applications that run on the product.They also said the many installations of Sybase where converting to SQL Server.Essentially my decision was simple. I have been studying SS since August 2007, and now working on Business Intelligence.Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
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tfountain
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
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Posted - 2009-02-16 : 09:42:14
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| I work with both SQL Server and Oracle and support varying levels of connectivity and interaction between the two. My honest opinion, I simply do not like Oracle. I think it's harder to maintain, harder to administer and is way more costly for features and licenses. Every Oracle patch we need to implement to resolve a bug in Oracle typically generates additional bugs. It's a never ending cycle that just makes me push for migrating everything to SQL Server more and more.Oracles excuse for our issues is we run on environments that are not mainstream - Oracle 10g Standard 32-bit and Oracle Standard 64-bit RAC - both on Windows 2003 Server boxes (32-bit and 64-bit respectively). The way I look at it, Oracle advertises it's supported so our shop should not be beta testers for patches.Aside from that, there is sufficient work in both fields. It's a matter of what direction you want to go. And yes, you could go both and double your value. |
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