Hi,
What is the most important resource in the planet?
As the title might have already hinted it is "The Data". Data is the New Oil. It is the costliest resource known to humans. There are so many things which mention about the importance of Data.
But I am not here to pile on with the same information. I am here to tell you something more important.
The Guardian of your Data is Database Administrator also known as DBA. But more than often people in IT ignore this profile and grant the role to either a Windows Admin or a SQL Developer.
Imagine handing over Windows Administration to SQL Developer and SQL Developer role to Windows Administrator. Right it gives you a kick immediately. You are ready to give a knee jerk reaction. But no one understands the Database like your Friendly Neighborhood DBA.
The basic problem of IT Management hiring a DBA is giving the responsiblity to HR (who has no clue what SQL Server, MYSSQL or Oracle and let's not get started on cosmos, mongo, dynamodb). I recently read an article where a company HR posted a 12 years experience for Kubernetes. Seems like Google were 6 years too slow. The next problem is job interviews unless you have a DBA who is taking your interview (I am lucky to have some amazing interviews with very senior DBA's) you have no clue what answer the interviewer is looking for. Most of the times they will bring up very specific questions with minimal details like the tempdb is full. Well there is no right answer and it is more of a approach the problem answer rather than a bullet point this is how it is done.
Now let's say the poor DBA still manages to siphon through the HR's list of desirable candidates and even manages to convince the non-DBA techies(no offence I love Windows Admins and SQL Developers) to impress. The company does not find much value in hiring a DBA for a single project and hence asks the person to be shared with multiple projects and the DBA loves to have more no problem there. The actual problem is no one is really ready for any change the DBA wants to do to improve security, performance or profitability. So after some time the organization finding no value in the work done asks to turn roles to a SQL Developer so they can justify the time and money spent on a DBA.
So you see the person looking after the most important resource is not even close to what he/she should have achieved. That said it is not the story of every DBA and IT of late has started to get really respectful with Data and there are even very specific and specialized profiles now related to Data like Data Scientist ,Machine Learning Engineer and so on. In the core all these profiles have a DBA in them but they specialize in specific discipline.
So there it is my view about the DBA for your Data.
Thanks,
Tushar Kanti
What is the most important resource in the planet?
As the title might have already hinted it is "The Data". Data is the New Oil. It is the costliest resource known to humans. There are so many things which mention about the importance of Data.
But I am not here to pile on with the same information. I am here to tell you something more important.
The Guardian of your Data is Database Administrator also known as DBA. But more than often people in IT ignore this profile and grant the role to either a Windows Admin or a SQL Developer.
Imagine handing over Windows Administration to SQL Developer and SQL Developer role to Windows Administrator. Right it gives you a kick immediately. You are ready to give a knee jerk reaction. But no one understands the Database like your Friendly Neighborhood DBA.
The basic problem of IT Management hiring a DBA is giving the responsiblity to HR (who has no clue what SQL Server, MYSSQL or Oracle and let's not get started on cosmos, mongo, dynamodb). I recently read an article where a company HR posted a 12 years experience for Kubernetes. Seems like Google were 6 years too slow. The next problem is job interviews unless you have a DBA who is taking your interview (I am lucky to have some amazing interviews with very senior DBA's) you have no clue what answer the interviewer is looking for. Most of the times they will bring up very specific questions with minimal details like the tempdb is full. Well there is no right answer and it is more of a approach the problem answer rather than a bullet point this is how it is done.
Now let's say the poor DBA still manages to siphon through the HR's list of desirable candidates and even manages to convince the non-DBA techies(no offence I love Windows Admins and SQL Developers) to impress. The company does not find much value in hiring a DBA for a single project and hence asks the person to be shared with multiple projects and the DBA loves to have more no problem there. The actual problem is no one is really ready for any change the DBA wants to do to improve security, performance or profitability. So after some time the organization finding no value in the work done asks to turn roles to a SQL Developer so they can justify the time and money spent on a DBA.
So you see the person looking after the most important resource is not even close to what he/she should have achieved. That said it is not the story of every DBA and IT of late has started to get really respectful with Data and there are even very specific and specialized profiles now related to Data like Data Scientist ,Machine Learning Engineer and so on. In the core all these profiles have a DBA in them but they specialize in specific discipline.
So there it is my view about the DBA for your Data.
Thanks,
Tushar Kanti
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