I stumbled upon Tom Kyte's Rant about the people who are aiming for instant knowledge. My experience has been that "many" new entrants into the field start categorizing work as "Routine Oracle DBA" from the second day they are on the job.
Routine Work as defined by the newbies is Anything or Everything that they may have executed even if they didnt know what exactly they were doing. The trend seems to be on identifying an activity, learning the basics on the process and execution and then moving on to a newer job with additional skills added to the resume.
My org policies now dictate that every newbie is going "manual" for 3 months instead of automated Cloning and Replication Procedures. This helped some, but I dont think we as Managers or Tech Leaders can force a change in how they acuqire their knowledge.
Oh Well.. We can only take the horse to the water.. or is that a Routine Task ?
