What are possible career paths after 7 years of database administration?

Hi, what is most common choice for Oracle production DBA with 5 years< experience, if he wants to change his career ? Is it possible to become Oracle Architect without Java/PL-SQL programming experience, but knowing many oracle products such as OBIEE, EBS etc ?

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Hi, what is most common choice for Oracle production DBA with 5 years< experience, if he wants to change his career ?
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Have you considered early retirement? A lot of DBAs I know got burnt out after about 5 years of dealing with management that wouldn't let them fix what needed fixed!
Seriously, though, your dba skills could be a good fit for a system architect position. Those positions often involve multiple systems, network and configuration issues, security, compression, encryption and job control to make it all work together.
Pick the brains of an architect coworker and start getting familiar with the documentation that architects work on: system diagrams, System requirements documents and other docs that may already be available where you work now.

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Last edited by Cylinder57 (2012-10-15 03:42:31)

Cylinder57 wrote:
From this quote:
Allan wrote:But, the OP (also?) talks about the local package database on his computer. That is not signed at all as there is no point. If someone can modify that, then they can regenerate the signature, or just modify any other piece of software on your computer.
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Last edited by Strike0 (2012-10-20 23:01:26)

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