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When is a DBA not a DBA?

A sysadmin friend of mine was describing some DBA work he was doing, and wrote this:

I'm not much of a DBA, really - if it can't be done through phpMyAdmin I'm not likely to be doing it.

This is in stark contrast to so many so-called DBAs who say "I'm a DBA....If it can't be done through phpMyAdmin it must be Senior DBA work."

I've used phpMyAdmin for MySQL administration, and there's just something so nice about working on commandline.

I can't believe any real DBA

On July 12th, 2007 Marc Castrovinci (not verified) says:

I can't believe any real DBA would use a tool for administration. But then again, those people are also the ones using applications to create their tables and database structure with no idea of how things really work.

When is a phpMyAdmin user

On July 12th, 2007 Sean O'Donnell (not verified) says:

When is a phpMyAdmin user considered a DBA?

Isn't that like calling someone who installs drupal on a server, a PHP Programmer?

Kids these days... *sheesh* =)

I've found that it's always

On July 12th, 2007 Joe Izenman (not verified) says:

I've found that it's always so nice to do anything one can to avoid phpMyAdmin at all costs. But that's just me. Fortunately I don't fear the command line (as some folks seems to), so it's all good.