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I know this is off topic but what are we worth?
Let's say:
2 Years Exp in Oracle; Oracle 8i OCP; Additional programming exp in VB, HTML/ASP, Javascript.
"Big Al" <db-guru_at_att.net> wrote in message
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> vasarpota_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > <<snipped>>>
> > 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?
>
> Do whatever you can to get some actual experience using Oracle. We've
> been having trouble finding Oracle DBA's in the Chicago area. We hired
> one DBA with a year's experience because we couldn't find anyone with
> more. We will train a current employee who we know has good programming
> and analysis skills to be a DBA before we hire someone with just class
> knowledge. It helps with employee retention for people to see others
> trained and promoted versus always hiring new people. We have an
> additional opening, but we have one employee in training and one new
> employee with a year experience so we won't hire anyone else without
> experience because we can't afford to have three rookies.
>
> Big Al
Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT