I began my career in IT in 1981, as a programmer/analyst. This was a career change and a state agency hired me into a trainee position, where I learned COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM and system analysis skills. In three years I advanced from trainee to project lead.
Several years and a couple of employers later, and after working on some early client/server applications, I transitioned to the DBA role, supporting databases on DEC’s Rdb and Oracle. My first Oracle database was at version 7.3 and hosted on Windows 3.11. I have worked exclusively with Oracle since, supporting it on Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux.
Over the course of my career I have supported systems on IBM OS-MVS and its various descendants and derivatives, MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, DEC VMS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux.
So good to see your blog got started Ed
. Hope that you would keep it updated as much as possible.
Regards
Aman….
Comment by Aman.... — February 9, 2011 @ 10:22 pm |
Hi Steve,
Nice to see that your are blogging…I was waiting on from long time..
finally you started….;-)
I am lucky that you career started on the year I was born, might be something in common..
All the best…
Comment by Pavan Kumar N — April 9, 2011 @ 11:45 am |
Hi Ed. Good to see you had started blogging.
Good Luck
Comment by Kamran Agayev A. — July 2, 2011 @ 3:38 pm |
I saw your posts in OTN, Specifically your TNS/protocol issues posts are amazing & marvelous
Keep blogging.
Comment by nassyambasha — October 13, 2011 @ 9:12 pm |