This table shows my principal skills, that is the databases I've managed and the operating system on which they ran.

Skill

How Long

DBA and SQL

Oracle

Last 10 years.

Informix

3 years. (Under 20%)

SQL Server

2 Years. (Under 10%)

Sybase

2 Years. (Under 5%)

Ingres

5 Years. (Ending 1999)

UNIX

18 Years.

Linux

7 Years.  (Since Red Hat 6.1)

Solaris

10 Years.

VMS

4 Years.

Windows NT, 2000, XP and Server versions.

3 Years.

Within the Oracle environment my experience has been quite diverse - here is a list of key words and concepts from my experiences about which people have inquired:

This is not an exhaustive list.  I'll add more as receive inquiries.


Now minor skills, again not an exhaustive list.

Skill

How Long

TOAD

3 Years.

Foglight

3 Years.

MS Office

12 Years.

MS Windows client operating systems

12 Years.


Now skills so aged that no-one cares about them any more.

Skill

How Long

Tellus GIS

1 year.

ICL GEORGE 3

4 years.

COBOL programming

1 year.

FORTRAN programming

1 year.

Remedy programming

1 year.


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