Re: First DBA job!

I confirm. Having only certification is only 30% of the knowledge you need to work well in Oracle DBA or developer. I have now 2-3 years of Dev2000 + DBA Oracle 8 experience. Else, I've done the MCSE + I (nt4, nt4 entreprise, iis4, proxy s., exchange server, tcpip, net. essentials, etc..) which is a lot of certifications.. and it helped me a lot to understand better diff. technology.. I have now 9 years of IT experience and 5 years of IT Manager..

the combination experiences + MCSE+I + OCP (adm, dev).. is very powerfull !!!!!
and my salary growed + 150% in the last 3 years..

remember: the most important is the experience and the projects you finnished well.

Good luck

Olivier
Switzerland

elle <elle_at_surma.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:940361222.25558.0.nnrp-03.d4e4e2cc_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
> I've done 2 of the Oracle DBA Certification Tests and planning to finish
the
> certification in a couple of months.
> I am currently working as a software engineer(1 yr). Basically, my job
> consists of embedding SQL into COBOL apps. My team also act as DBAs of our
> development environment. (setup servers, advice on sql, security,etc.) for
> both MS SQL Server and Oracle (but ms sql server is main platform so I
don't
> get to do much Oracle at all in my working life)
> I am willing to move on and start a career as an Oracle DBA, but I don't
> feel very confident about it at all. I know I'll get the certification,
but
> my experience is so limited, that I'm worried I'll forget all the stuff
> pretty soon if I don't practice it.
> It's not that I don't believe in myself. I know that if I get the
experience
> I can become good at it, but worries me thinking how I am going to
convince
> a prospective employee, that just because I lack the experience I cannot
do
> a good job and be an asset for the company.
>
> any advice?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> elle
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 02:38:28 CDT