Posted by: Rinzi May 7, 2013
SQL Developer or DBA?
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It is two different skillset but people generally start as developer and move on to become dba.

Pay might be more for dba but you also need to be more available. Need to be on-call lot of time.

As someone said before you need to have hands on knowledge to be a dba as you are admistrating the database itself. You do not need to do a lot of programming here but if programming is your thing you should go for developer..
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