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

"godmann" <allanwtham_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:95cd51c.0201301854.7d7bda22_at_posting.google.com...
> Let me ask you: which person would you hire?
>
> A. A guy with Computer Science degree, understand the theory of
> computation and keen of finding solutions and able to trace
> and solve
>
> OR
> B. With all certifications and he is product-oriented.

For a junior post either of them, whichever came across better in interview. For a senior post probably neither. Do I regard OCP and a compsci degree as valuable well yes. Do I attach undue importance to either of them. No. Obviously this is partly because I'm an Economics major (hence all the waffling). Mostly however it is because I have found that a compsci degree is no better or worse than any other degree, it shows that you are an intelligent and reasoning individual. What it doesn't show is your ability to move from getting 60% plus on exams to getting that crashed system backup with minimal (preferably no) data loss in the shortest possible time.

Oh and in our environment with 8 close co-workers who have various compsci qualifications I tend to be the one whjo writes the code - go figure.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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