on second thought, it seems more useful to get into the developer side
... my understanding is that most DBAs first spend at least a couple
of years in development type functions. So why is it that most
companies, even schools focus ONLY on the courses for the DBA track
and not other tracks??? This is annoying because not only does the
DBA certification NOT prepare you for a DBA position, but it doesn't
look like you get into as much of the nitty-gritty things like PL/SQ,
therefore it doesn't prepare you for a developer function either ... i
don't know i'm still trying to figure all of this out.
mlm_at_mintorealestate.com (MM) wrote in message news:<f18e04f8.0307142312.24b8216d_at_posting.google.com>...
> So I'm thinking about getting an Oracle certification. I realize that
> this is not necessarily a guarantee in the job market and many people
> differ on the real impact of an Oracle certification for employment.
> My background is mainly with MS Access and Web databases with
> ColdFusion, so I have some of the SQL basics down and a good general
> idea relational databases. But this is the extent of my related
> knowledge, besides one C++ course a couple of years back, which was
> good, but was a long time ago. So I feel that taking a couple of
> Oracle certification courses may be the easiest way for me to get
> exposed to the application. The certification itself is somewhat
> secondary. In fact, I was thinking of doing the Oracle9iAS Web
> Administrator track because there's only one test involved...(except
> that it doesn't seem as in depth as the DBA track, which is more what
> I'm familiar with, I think). I don't think I'd want to get too deep
> into the process, but go just to the Associate level to get my feet
> wet and then see what I can do on my own from there. Any thoughts?
Received on Tue Jul 15 2003 - 10:12:21 CDT
