Re: Is there a slowdown in the Oracle market?

vasarpota_at_my-deja.com wrote:

Concentrate on the basics:

Good RDBMS skills transfter to DB2, SQL Server, etc.

Good analytical and creative skills mean more to me than a piece of paper. Every DDS is not going to pull my teeth!

Good software skills: coding debugging

Good platform knowledge.

>Wanted to ask you guys if you sensed a slowdown in the Oracle market?
>I live in the New York/New Jersey area and have been working with
>Oracle the last six months. I will be Oracle 8i DBA certified probably
>within the month.
>
>I wanted to know if there was a slowdown in the market for DBAs
>(especially Oracle)? I know that many people on this board are working
>towards certification and hope to land a job in Oracle soon but are
>there too many people coming in? Its already very difficult for a
>entry level person to get a job an an Oracle DBA. Increasingly,
>companies are looking for more than just Oracle DBA skills (e.g ERP
>software and System Administration)
>
>What would you reccomend for a new Oracle DBA? Should the person work
>on the internet features to get an edge in the marketplace? What would
>give the person an edge other than OCP (which many not really help
>either)? Should I work with PL/SQL as well or should I concentrate on
>areas like Partitioning, Parallel Query, Parallel Server, Standby
>Databases, Replication? Which of these should I concentrate on?
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Vinnie
>
>
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Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT