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

I've been teaching it for 3, working it for 7 before that. Every damn course I find something I didn't know/had forgotten. Some student or other, even sometimes the incompetent/irritating/hopeless ones, always manages to throw me a curve-ball that requires considerable thinking on my feet, if not a trip home and an evening's experimentation.

And with a new version released every 3 days (it feels like it, anyway!), it's a continual learning curve, not a once-and-have-done job.

Regards
HJR

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"Andrew Mobbs" <andrewm_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Keith Boulton <kboulton_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

> >> there isn't anything to gain, why bother? 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

> >

> >Then you're a fool. Anyone with half a brain can learn everything they

need


> >to know about Oracle in a single job in less than a year. The only other

> >thing they need to know is how to find out the stuff they don't yet know

as


> >and when they need it.

>

> I obviously have less than half a brain. I'm still learning stuff about

> Oracle that's important to my job.

>

> To rephrase a question I was once asked at an interview:

>

> What happens when I type "SELECT ename FROM emp;" at a SQL*Plus prompt

> and press return?

>

> I still can't answer that in enough detail.

>

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> Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/