Re: Oracle OCP DBA track - worth it?

If you've got experience as an Oracle DBA, upgrading to Oracle 8 is a good thing. If you haven't, you're in trouble, depending on where you want to work. But it's a catch-22 world out there. No experience, no job. No job, no experience. How does anyone break into the database administration game?

I retrained, (I was a COBOL programmer long ago, and a smal corporation secretary-treasurer for the last two decades), as an Oracle 7.3 DBA. No-one in my class who certified got a DBA job. Some who quit in the middle, after passing the SQL certification test, and got training in VB or C++ got jobs right away as programmers/developers.

I am a certified Oracle DBA, but am working as a programmer/trainer for a shop that is doing a DB2 project. they took a chance on me, but I'm spinning my wheels.

shan168_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <7b295e$moh$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>I am about to start taking the OCP tests (Oracle8 DBA Track). I wonder if
it's
>worth it or not. If I plan to work as a contractor, what would be the rate
>after earning the certificate? Anybody who has done market research and is
>willing to provide me some information will be deeply appreciated!
>
>Steph
>
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Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 13:24:03 CST