RE: FreeOCP

Dear Malladi

Good ! I can't get more exact report than this!

Rao

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On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:50:44  
 Rama Malladi wrote:


>Hi friends!

> There is a lots of talk about Paper DBAs on this message board. With due

>respect to all the veteran DBAs without OCP and new DBAs with OCP, I would

>like to make few comments from my own personal experience (spanning 9 years+

>in USA, Europe and India)

>

> I have come across lots of long time DBAs with no OCP, who frown on OCP

>DBAs. Working closely with them, I noticed that these longs really count the

>hours to bill the clients. To my dismay, I came across 10+ years Oracle DBAs

>who had no clue about OPS, Partitioning, Snapshots, Stand by etc... They

>have gained experience over the years only because the client could not find

>a better alternative.

>

> At the same time, in the interviews and at work, I come across lots of new

>OCP DBAs who can do the job, but need lots support and help from the other

>DBAs. (It is sort of baby sitting).

>

> I was a DBA without OCP for long time and I had no problem in finding jobs

>without OCP. After I started preparing for OCP, I came to know of so many

>things that I did not know before. In my humble opinion, any OCP DBA with

>experience is lot better than a OCP DBA without experience or an experienced

>DBA without OCP.

>

> OCP helped me as a DBA to understand things that I did not know before. It

>took lots of time, confidence and enthusiasm to be a OCP DBA and change my

>self in the process.

>

> Without OCP, I would have been a Pumpkin DBA, doing clueless things in a

>random and unilateral way. Let's face it... OCP or No OCP is a matter of

>choice. But it helps to be OCP than be left-out and looking at SOUR

>GRAPES!!!

>

>Rama

>OCP DBA with experience!

>

>

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