Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mladen Gogala Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql Subject: Re: Is PostgreSQL good? Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <1308640710.210659@proxy.dienste.wien.at> <1308738638.232318@proxy.dienste.wien.at> <1308911383.819034@proxy.dienste.wien.at> <87vcvnxqsj.fsf@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1309561081 16872 eJwNyMkNADEIA8CWwmGzlMOC6L+E5DcaGIUdTtCx2NyUthdV26vVnwuO85iMhtZTxjggf3NELxrjEJI= (1 Jul 2011 22:58:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:58:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BL5UkAOaMD/xJ6B6PwhhN0LDZT7Nyfn46dNhWT9LB2evVEUX0qRjEgsfEA/jAP8g== Cancel-Lock: sha1:KkMf+CpgzMbe7U+gifpgRR73eV0= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXZLQg56CV/09YQg+LmwgGOJzLEoiWulAt1ChnZcPsbcP0OvmVFT/WF3q+l+p6tD9AvZ/dnTh0npLsB9VtGdY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.postgresql:182 On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:02 -0700, Don Y wrote: > How do you define a "database professional"? Someone who is paid to > perform the duties of a DBA? Someone who went to school to be a DBA? > Someone who *calls* himself a DBA? > > I am *acting* as a DBA on two projects currently. I suspect I will > represent a greater "user base" than most folks here. And, probably, be > responsible for more "managed data" than the typical > "viewer/participant". > > I suspect I am using the DBMS in ways that most viewers/participants > here have never even considered ("Huh? You can't do *that*..."). Do I > want to make a career out of this? Nope. There are many more > interesting application domains to explore... this is just a tool to > facilitate work in a few of them And good luck to you. -- http://mgogala.byethost5.com