Mark A. Framness wrote in message
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>On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 02:59:59, design <design_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> If you have no experience with Oracle, get some.
>> I don't know why people think that studying a bunch of books to get
>> "certified" on something they have no experience with is a good thing.
>> To me, alls it shows is that you can study and take and pass a few
>> tests. Big deal.
>
>Unfortunately those of us working towards certification face the classical
>catch-22 here. Don't have Oracle CP credentials no job for you, Oh-oh now
>you want OCP but you don't have experience no way. See what I am saying?
>Granted I do agree with you that learning the stuff straight from the book
>and other materials is an empty sort of thing but short of springing for
>personal Oracle (and then a lot of people will complain that can not give
>the right kind of experience) what can one do?
>
It seems like I am constantly looking for Jr. level DBA's that want to
learn. The problem I face is that Jr. DBA's are looking for a Sr. DBA
salary. Just having your OCP doesn't justify an 80K salary.
>
>> Seems like more and more people are posting saying they don't have Oracle
>> experience but are taking the OCP exams. Hmmm...
>> will the certification eventually be diminished to the level of Novel?
>> Oracle should strive to be more like the Cisco certification -- it'll
>> actually mean something.
>>
>> TBone wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice. I have just
>> > passed the PL/SQL exam for the Oracle8 track and i would like to know
>> > how hard the other exams are in relation to this one. With no prior
>> > programming experience, I found it to be quite challenging. Which
>> > exams did you guys find the hardest and easiest. Thanks for any
>> > advice you can give "the new guy"
>> >
>> > I really apreciate it!
>> >
>> > Bye
>>
>
>From: Mark A. Framness
>http://netnet.net/~farmer/
>mframness_at_lakefield.net
>
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>Brian Framness
Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 09:15:56 CST
