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Yet another success of my career left behind, after being awarded as DBA of the Year by Oracle Magazine Editors’ Choice Awards 2009. In this post you will find some tips I have been using throughout my career to become successful as an expert of Oracle RDBMS. Although fine grain details of the post are focused on Oracle RDBMS, it is not very hard to generalize those ideas to any expertise. With my wishes of those tips to be helpful for young experts … Fall in Love I never thought Oracle software as a way of making money in first place. Oracle stuff is simply a natural extension of what I did as a 12 year old kid with QBASIC. Beginning at those days, “IT” has become my whole life. I never thought on returns or feasibility of my effort on it. The more time I spend, the deeper my love becomes and the deeper my love gets, the more time I devote. One of the most popular questions I always see in youngsters mind is “Is Oracle worth putting effort to have an outstanding income?” To tell the truth, Oracle is may be one of the last resorts to be taken just to make “good money” as you think about bugs, crashes, nightly wakeups, etc. Instead I put my reason as “I am spending time as an Oracle expert because I love to solve problems about very large databases” It is always a great challenge for me to look for a cost-effective, robust, and scalable solution for any kind of VLDB problem: Search for the solution, find it, develop/architect it and be in proud with your solution when it lives on production… Growing from Jedi Youndling to Jedi Grand Master |