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by Sara Cushman, Assistant Site Editor
Last month, I mentioned that SearchDatabase.com had launched a new interactive salary survey and I invited you to answer a few questions to see how you measure up to your peers in the database industry. Well, more than 1,800 of you have! Here are some highlights of the results so far:
The first thing you're all wondering is of course: who makes the most money? Naturally, CIOs and VPs hold the top spot, with an average of $130,000/year (US dollars) in salary and overall compensation. You database administrators aren't doing too bad either--you average $75,000, with somebody out there making $280,000! Lots more data is available: You can compare how your salary stacks up by using one of our canned reports that sort by top 10 paying jobs or by title. You can also compare your salary to others in your industry and to IT professionals in general.
What does it take to make the top 10 list? Not surprisingly, education, experience, location, industry, company size and several other factors all affect earning potential. You can view salary information based on these all these factors by clicking over to our results page.
A very cool feature of this survey is that you can even create your own custom reports based on any or all of these criteria. For example, I did my own investigating and found that here in New England USA, a female DBA with a bachelor's degree makes an average of $15,000 less than an equally educated male DBA! Have I uncovered gender discrimination, or just a small sample size? In this case, it might be the latter. For this reason, I encourage anyone who hasn't yet taken the survey to do so. It's a quick and easy; click
here to take the survey.
Enjoy the week, Sara
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Database-Web integration
by Tim DiChiara, Site Editor
Integrating a DBMS with the Web and replacing static HTML with dynamic, database-driven Web pages continue to be top IT challenges. The collection of tips and advice below will help you understand & implement Web connectivity ...
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Featured Expert Rudy Limeback
Web and SQL Design Consultant, r937.com
Category:SQL
Rudy has worked with commercial databases since the mid-1970's, starting with IDMS, a Codasyl network system, and progressing through IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server relational databases. He has developed data warehouses and transactional databases, always with an emphasis on making them easy to use for developers and end users alike. He specializes in writing SQL statements that are simple and easy to maintain. Rudy now operates r937.com, developing databases for use with dynamic Web sites.
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This Week: In the forums
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Oracle SQLLoader problem
Member "moiz" is trying to use Oracle SQLLoader to upload data from CSV files into a single table. Anybody have any tips? Go to our "Data warehousing and data analysis" forum if you can offer any advice. |
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Informix or Access or MySQL
Member "Colin Lam" is still waiting for help! He has an Access DB retrieving data from an Informix server but is having performance problems. He's thinking of using MySQL instead of Access. What do you think? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can help him out.
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