[jrms]

Hi, my apologies if it's a bit off topic, but I wonder if you have any advise or can point me in some direction on the way to becoming a DBA, or something similar enough? I've been working as and old school sysadmin for the last 17 years and counting. Even if I can do nowadays devops stuff, I always liked the DBA work, based on my experience as sysadmin for DB servers (mysql, oracle, and friends...), and I'm considering moving my career in that direction. So is there any "DBA certification" for which I could take a course and all that? Thanks!!

[hobs]

You've hit on the major problem with DBA work, which is that you are touching some of the most expensive prod stuff and even if you have "that cert" many places just want to see that somewhere else trusted you as a DBA for that type of product.

I managed to transition in a company in dire straits that had no other options, and then getting new DBA jobs was fairly easy.

[jrms]

Thanks for your feedback, and I pretty understand what you mean, I've worked with some DBA know as the "million dollars error guy". But I think that's a second step, and anyway we were maintaining the servers where those dbs were running... So we deserve some trust maybe?