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Re: DBA Exams

From: Wuchun Shen <shen.wuchun_at_bcg.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:21:04 -0500
Message-ID: <38738B90.C7E8EA30@bcg.com>


I always think the RMAN stuff is crazy!! How can Oracle put that shit into a formal test?
I never used RMAN, does that mean I don't know B/R? Of course not.

I think SQL/PLSQL is the easiest. Tuning is the most difficult just like some other guys said here.

Mel wrote:

> In article <84tr0m$eev$1_at_news.smartworld.net>,
> "Joseph Cherian" <jcherian_at_freewwweb.com> wrote:
> > Which of the Oracle DBA exams is the easiest to take?
> >
> >
>
> My personal order (easiest first)
>
> 1. Backup and Recovery - the only tricky thing on this exam is the
> bloody RMAN syntax!
> 2. Concepts
> 3. Network Administration
> 4. PL/SQL + SQL (but I haven't ever been a developer, so the pl/sql
> stuff was pretty scary to me)
> 5. Performance Tuning (lots of bizarre equations and statistics to
> remember)
>
> Best of luck
>
> dwarf/x
>
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Received on Wed Jan 05 2000 - 12:21:04 CST

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