What is the life of a DBA like?

[JakeCarter2]

Im a CIS major at the University of Louisville and Im doing a report on possible future careers, any information on how the life of a DBA works would be awesome

[rmiao]

Not bad for me.

[Island1]

I've noticed several blogs / ongoing articles, over the past couple of years, where individual DBAs document their lives day-by-day (including the triumphs and frustrations therein). Here's a great starting point, but, obviously, you can search this in-depth via Google, etc.:

http://search.ittoolbox.com/ITtoolbox-blogs?r=dba

ITToolbox also has a vast amount of info on this in the whitepapers sections, among others - loads of detail re: DBA as a career, as well as grouped classifications of specific technical details, among a host of database specializations and occupational considerations.

Best of luck. Let us know how it goes!

Bill

[MAK]

Depends on the client and projects
I have seen all these in different clients

a. challenging
b. boring
c. hectic
d. under the gun
e. lay back
f. No prod support. wow. Just engineering
g. All are stupid
h. Wow I learnt something
i. I met a genius
j. It sucks
k. Your boss is always right
l. Money is good
m. Money is not important
n. commute sucks
o. Politics

etc etc

[JakeCarter2]

Thanks a lot for all the information so far, I really appreciate the help!