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new_dba

2006-03-21, 3:23 am

Hi All,

Am new to Database and Sybase.

Just joined in an company which has an client in Banking & Financial. I
heard a lot about sybase ase, replication server & IQ. Nowadays in this
company i hearing different news like sybase is going to stop supporting
DBMS and oracle or IBM will take over sybase kind of news...

I need some one full thought on this... please advice whether i should
continue working on sybase ase as my career or should i change for oracle
or db2.

thanks & regards
Mike.

Mark A. Parsons

2006-03-21, 3:23 am

I've heard the same rumors for the last 12 years ... Sybase is still here.

Will Sybase still be here next year, the year after that, or the year after
that? *shrug* If I could see into the future I wouldn't be sitting here
doing DBA work!! ;-)

Oracle and DB2 have a larger market share so there is a larger demand (in
terms of raw numbers) for folks with those skill sets. However, within the
Sybase market there is also a large demand for DBA's, it's just that the
number of DBA positions is lower in the Sybase market than in the Oracle
and DB2 markets.

All RDBMS's currently have a high demand for DBA's ... Sybase, Oracle, DB2,
MSSQL, Teradata, etc.

new_dba wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Am new to Database and Sybase.
>
> Just joined in an company which has an client in Banking & Financial. I
> heard a lot about sybase ase, replication server & IQ. Nowadays in this
> company i hearing different news like sybase is going to stop supporting
> DBMS and oracle or IBM will take over sybase kind of news...
>
> I need some one full thought on this... please advice whether i should
> continue working on sybase ase as my career or should i change for oracle
> or db2.
>
> thanks & regards
> Mike.
>

Pablo Sanchez

2006-03-21, 3:23 am

"new_dba" <new_dba@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:f5868a1005dfcb5
e3ac5c4628d9bdc01@lo
calhost.talkaboutdatabases.co
m:

> I need some one full thought on this... please advice whether i
> should continue working on sybase ase as my career or should i
> change for oracle or db2.

Sounds like a troll.

Let's say it's not, then pick any DBMS and learn it. If another job
comes around with a different DBMS, learn it.

Once you've learned one, they're all pretty much the same and you
simply need to learn syntax and the features it has/hasn't over the
other(s).

Cheers,
--
Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
http://www.blueoakdb.com

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