2.0
Feb 22, 2014
Stressful DBA job, but you learn alot
Current employee, more than 3 years
Warren, NJ
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
The technology and systems are challenging. Many database database environments have RAC and Sharepoint. This is a blessing and a burden.
Cons
much overnight work, frequent crises, demanding work environment. Shareplex probably increases the problems and alerts by threefold. The applications I supported are very demanding and required off-hours for most of the changes, which were frequent. I'm talking about 11 PM or 2 AM start times and it often was 6-8 hours of work. They require alot of Oracle patching and 8 Enterprise releases per year for many applications and that's something that runs on weekends for about 12-18 hours. Most people have had enough after 1-2 years.
