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Over in CNET, Matt Asay has posted an article The open-source job shortage , talking about large enterprises' need for developers with deep MySQL experience . While he is correct about the need for talent with that skillset, there are plenty of effective solutions. A number of months ago, Harper Reed asked me where he could hire MySQL talent, and I told him to take his existing staff, and run them thru MySQL training. That seems to have worked for him. That's now my stock answer when people ask where they can hire MySQL talent. When you need to go up to the next level, get and read the book High Performance MySQL, Second Edition. The book is basically several of the very best MySQL people in the world, reduced to readable book form. If your staff will read that book, they will become people with "deep MySQL experience". If training up your own staff is not on the roadmap, and you need someone to come in for a week to analyze and design a new system, or to do performance fixes to an existing system, you have many choices. There is, of course, Sun MySQL Professional Services. Or you can go to folks like 42SQL, or Proven Scaling, or Percona, or Open Query. Or say you want operational ongoing DBAs, or have a panic situation and you need a DBA right now, there are outfits like Pythian and Blue Gecko. And if you are a hybrid shop, these two companies do both MySQL and Oracle. In short, "using MySQL is risky because we can't find the talent!" is a solved problem. Now, you might not want to pay the talent, but that's a different problem. (Disclaimer and disclosure: I work for Sun MySQL Professional Services.) Tags: geek, mysql
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From: awfief |
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August 2nd, 2008 01:32 pm (UTC)
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It's not enough to train and read books, but you have to use MySQL while you're doing it to gain the experience to do so, and gain experience with it. Just to clarify; the training is excellent (and Open Query also offers training),
Oh, and also, Blue Gecko may be "basic" DBA ongoing and oncall, but I know that Pythian has more than just the basics going for it. :) We do the basics and more complicated stuff, augmenting or just being the DBA team for companies.
(I know you were focusing on the "ongoing" as opposed to "come in for a week", but the word "basic" was the first descriptor, and my days are usually anything but basics! Basically if folks use Pythian they don't need to hire a consultant to come in for analysis, design, or performance tuning because we do that as well.)
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Since I am not as familiar as some of your readers with the full range of geekery-let us say someone like me went through the training-I'm smart, but have no IT training or experience other than that of a relatively clueful user who can install and run his own Linux box-what would that qualify me to do? (If anything; I'm trying to discover the limits of the training you specify). Because, hey, if for (looks at bundles) about $7000 plus travel expenses and a couple weeks time commitment I can be a DBA, it starts to compare favorably with spending a lot more than that for an MPH, which doesn't qualify you for a lot more, and likely pays less (and, not infrequently, requires you to set up and manage good-sized databases; I applied for a recent job asking for MS Access DB experience, of which I have none at all, but I 'spect I can learn it in jig time if need be).
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