Building a solid foundation for a DBA career

There's a great paper written by Steve Lemme which he delivered at this year's IOUG-A Live Conference on this subject. You can find the paper at: http://www.dbatoolbox.com/WP2002_06/beginners_dba_job_descript.pdf. I think it should address the answers you're seeking.

As far as whether or not there are many women in the Oracle DBA field, I do know that in a recent certification survey, 84% of the respondents were male in the field. Now, that doesn't mean that is the percentage of women in the industry overall, it just means that more men responded to the survey! I think that in general, the field is wide open to qualified and talented individuals regardless of gender.

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