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

From: Tom Dyess <tdyess_at_dyessindustries.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:05:07 GMT
Message-ID: <nHf68.173385$_w.27277948@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com>

Well, I'd have to disagree with you on the compsci degree. But again, it all depends on where you get it. There are colleges that are accredited highly in computer fields and there are those that aren't. I got a degree from UCF (University of Central Florida) which is a large school in Florida without a prominent football team (thus the lack of recognition of the general public). The compsci professors take their work very seriously and UCF gets ranked in the top 10 - 15 every year in the WORLD programming competitions. We even beat MIT consistently. Of course, there aren't that many schools that can boast that type of ability in their compsci majors, but the ones that 'make the grade' and graduate with a compsci major are often more prepared for the real world programming.

Tom
www.oraclepower.com

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3c590b3f$0$8508$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> "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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