What is on Your Mind?

My first true UNIX role was travelling round the country installing new servers in Insurance brokers and migrating the app and data from the old box usually running SCO 3.2 rel 4.2 to OpenServer 5.0.x. Company based in Leeds, me based from home in Brighton, always had 3 days to do a 1 day job (well if the kit ever turned up on time), got to see the country, had hotel stays, expenses - great fun. Unfortunately care free driving put paid to the little number - oh well.

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This is my 1st job as a Solaris Admin after graduation and it has been more than 2 years.

Like what zazzyboy said "the world's your oyster." in the UNIX world. Tks God, I didn't ended up as a developer like what I desired during school. (Now I write scripts to satisfy my own needs unlike app developer codes to satisfy others' needs.)

In 2 years I finished SCSA, SCNA, OCP and J2EE WCD. As a DBA/SA, really have to read a lot to get job done in the most efficient manner, else will find yourself re-inventing the wheel many times.

The books I have cleared and recommended are:
Brian Wong - Configuration & Capacity Planning
Adrian Cockroft - Sun Perf and Tuning
Tanenbaum - Modern OS
Terry Quatrani - Visual Modelling with Rational Rose & UML
David B. Little and David A. Chapa - Implementing Backup and Recovery
Richard J. Niemiec - Oracle9i Perf Tuning
Tons of SUN Blueprints - http://www.sun.com/blueprints/online.html

"Stevens book, UNIX Network Programming" is my next item. (Not very good with socket programming.)

Other than have to spend a lot of time reading, I dun have much complaints about being a SA/DBA. And it gets more fun when you have to spend budgets on improving the existing data center infrastructure.

Have not look back since then.