Re: Is Sr. DBAs afraid of not be able to pass cert exam ??

Christian,

    That is a very good arguement. I was more concerned about the Sr. DBA's who don't bother with certifications; people who have already been working with it for 10 years or so. I completely agree, when the odds are stacked equally, OCP all the way, but how often does that happen. The DBA experience can be the same, but other working experiences, such as Sabre experience, or IRS or Walmart warehouse experience vs. others will probably stack the deck a little more than an OCP.

Tom
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"Christian Svensson" <chse30_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ccc2a7eb.0201300149.5bacd22f_at_posting.google.com...
> > If I had a choice of hiring
> > someone with 4 years experience and OCP and someone with 10 years of
solid
> > experience, I'd choose the latter every time. The problem with
> > certifications, as all tests, is that the information is soon forgotten
once
> > it is out of practice.
>
> Very interesting thoughts about this discussion. And of course is
> experience worth much more than "just" have taken the OCP exams. We
> all know the "paper-MCSE-story".
>
> From my side the reason for taking the OCP DBA exams is that I want to
> learn more about the Oracle features. And I agree that there are much
> stuff that you never will use, but if you never knows which
> options/features there are available, then you never know if that
> feature would solve your problem, instead of using that
> "old-same-proven-solution".
>
> Last I just want say if a future employer have to choose between two
> consultants with exact same years of experience and one of them have a
> DBA OCP, which one do you think they will think of most ?
>
> Just some thoughts about this OCP discussion.
>
> Regards
>
> /Christian
>
Received on Wed Jan 30 2002 - 11:41:41 CST