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DATABASE AS A CAREERSameer Kumar
- Profile: DB Consultant, Ashnik PteLtd, Singapore
- Education: Bachelor of Tech., NirmaUniversity, India
WHO?
Who should opt for a career in Databases?
Do you like normalization?
Do you love diving into a huge relational query?
Get me the salary of all the employees who earn more than the average salary of the company
Or get me all those who were joined in the year when maximum no of employees were hired?
Do you like looking at performance graph ?
Do you like waking up to a call which makes you rush to office?
HOW ?
You have various choices when it comes to nurturing a career in Databases
You can be the guy looking after massive data centers: Mr. DBA
You can be the guy who asks too many questions to the developers: Mr. DB Designer
You can be the person who designs the whole solution: Mr. DB Architects
Database developer (yeah it’s different from being a java developer)
Freelance consultant
DB Specialist:
DB Performance Engineer
DB HA Engineer
DB Integration Expert
DB Monitoring expert
But gradually the roles are expanding and are overlapping now a days
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?
Skills differ vastly from kind of role you are working in
Over lapping roles: know a bit of everything
DB Concepts:
Various design standard: need and over head (e.g. Normalization)
Database Objects
Basic programming logic
OS and system basics, e.g. I/O, network etc
Memory requirements
Process model of OS
Database over all functioning
WHICH DATABASE?
The dilemma, which database shall I go for a big name like
Oracle or shall I go for growing market segment or shall I go for
Open Source?
Wait there is noSQL as well!
What about cloud?
Well all I will say
Keep your fundamentals clear
Keep yourself flexible: the World is shifting from Big Brands to “ROI”
Adopt open source! Get Cloud!
NEW CHALLENGES
Increasing cost of IT maintenance
Increasing need of being agile
Do I need to worry about noSQL?
How can you be prepared
noSQL: is not replace but a complementing technology
Cloud: be agile and flexible
Open Source and open standards: what you learn is generic
WILL I GET A JOB AS A DB GUY?
Yes you will get! Plus you have many options to specialize and
groom your career...
IS DB IMPORTANT IF I WANT TO HAVE
A DIFFERENT CAREER?
Yes
Security experts need to secure databases too (more than anything
else)
Performance engineers need to analyze the db performance as
well
Application Architects needs to do db design as well
Developers do write queries
IS BEING A DB GUY CHALLENGING
ENOUGH?
Trust me, it is!
TRAINING RESOURCES
Every database has huge repository of resources which you can browse
Contact Abyres (http://www.abyres.net/), our local partner for training on PostgreSQL Database
Bulk courses for University Student
Organize workshop for Redhat and PostgreSQL at your University
Participate in user groups e.g. Postgres User group, register on EnterpriseDB website
Join/Create Meetup groups and attend/organize events
Best way to learn is to socialize with other learners
IF ANY OF THOSE NEEDS MY
ASSISTANCE
I tweet at @Sameerkasi200x
