RE: Oracle certification - Worth the hard work?

A certificate in this prety much lets me know that you can take a test, it does not tell me a damn thing about if you can do the job.

Just because you can read a book and regurgetate the information back up onto a piece of paper does not mean that you can handle the day to day workings of a DBA or handle users in a manner that does not a) Piss them off to no end or b) Give them everything they want and the expense of everyone else. It also does not show me that you can handle the high pressure oh so fun situation of having 100 upper management types calling you at 5 am wondering why the production database is down and how long it is going to take you to put it back up. And it surely does not show me that you know how to handle the 100 other things that can go wrong that are just not covered in anything but life experience.

Experience over Certification any day.

My order of hiring is :

1. Experience + Certification.
2. Experience Without Certification.
3. Newbie + Certification.
4. Newbie Without Certification.

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From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco [mailto:juancarlosreyesp_at_gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:55 PM
To: jim_kennedy_at_mentor.com
Cc: gogala_at_sbcglobal.net; davewendelken_at_earthlink.net; oracle-l Subject: Re: Oracle certification - Worth the hard work?

1. I can tell that definitively I had got a very positive benefit from certification.
2. If I would have had a tutor previously to introduce to few key topics, maybe I woudln't need the certification.
3. Even after the certification I need Tom Kytes advice.
4. The certification is only +1 in the evaluation. Not only to hire the dba, else when you are working as a contract business is important to show your personnel has a certification.
5. The certification, when there is a problem, gives you more credibility.

What do you think?
If I'm a doctor and I cut your leg, because I say you can die, and I don't have a certification in that speciality, or if I have, which will be the difference?

So if you certify better for you and for your boss.

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Orace Certified Professional Developer 6i

8 years of experience in Oracle 7,8i,9i,10g and developer 6i
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Aug 12 2005 - 16:21:47 CDT