It all depends on where you are located, in Canada; I would say since the
release of 7 MS SQL now dominating the market for small to medium
companies, Oracle is dominating the higher market (Government and
Enterprise Databases).
Overseas, Oracle is used to be pretty much everything, now small companies
and governments are introducing MS SQL 2000.
I started with legacy databases in early 90s, and then moved to MS SQL,
but for the past 4 I’m doing mainly Oracle. I would say MS SQL is the
easiest,
Oracle is the hardest but it is the best, you have to be good on number
of operating systems specially UNIX, but it pays good and training is
everywhere, I see DB2 is loosing a big share of the market to Oracle and
MS SQL, I wonder where will DB2 will be in 5 years from now.
Their biggest customers were financial institutions now this is not the
case, financial institutions are moving to Oracle.

Certification is good but it does not tell much about how good the DBA is,
in my opinion the best DBA is the DBA who came from development
background.

My last word, if you are in North America, then MS SQL should be your
number 1 choice, then move to Oracle.




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