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Les,
It depends on what version of Oracle Databases you will be working with. You won't miss out on information going through the 9i Class because they will go over features from 8i as well. They are conclusive of features that have been available before 9i (as long as they are still in 9i). The only way you would miss out on 8i features is if you took the 9i New Features class, because that is strictly 9i. If you are doing it for a career change and you have not worked with Oracle at all before, I suggest that you not only take the classes, but download a version of Oracle at home and run through all kinds of examples from your classes, including backup and recovery scenerios, putting a load on your database and tuning performance, creating and deleting users, objects, stored procedures, sql and pl/sql scripts and Oracle networking.
So back to your question. I would probably suggest taking the 9i courses. I took the 8i courses because they were the "New Version" when I started.
This helped me a lot in my learning process and I would recommend it to anyone. So far I think it's a great field and I think its the best career decision I've made to this point.
Good luck,
-Scott
At 07:23 AM 2/14/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm thinking of going to school to get Oracle certified. There are 2
>schools in my area that are offering Oracle certs but one offers Oracle 8i
>courses w/ an upgrade to 9i, while the other offers all 9i courses. If i
>go to the schools who offers 9i courses, would I miss out on valuable 8i
>knowledge? Which school should I attend? The courses will last about 7
>or 8 months. Also, is this a good "in demand" field to get into? What
>chances am I looking at to getting hired as a newbie DBA once I graduate?
>
>I want to get into the Ecommerce side of Oracle (connecting DBs to
>websites/portals?). Which certification/path should I be
>following? Thanks in advance!!
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