Re: Seeking advice: Oracle9i OCP certification

"shrinad_at_hotmail.com" <aersdjes_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<abm07i$f7d$02$2_at_news.t-online.com>...
> i agree totally with you !!
>
> we have still bugs in oracle 7.0
>
> nowbody cares to fix it
>
> last year we tried to migrate a lot of data into oracle
>
> we started inserting empty rows after that we updated every column with
> an extra batch job,
>
> it run forever , in foxpro this worked fine
>
> we have so many oracle dba in india and they are doing nothing but
> defragmenting and rebuilding indexes to improve performance
>
> i liked oracle 6 this was really fine but the new stuff is bad
>
> sometimes we go for flatfiles because oracle is so slow
>
> if you delete a datafile called system.dbf everything is gone
>
> in dbase we had no problem
>
> <aersdjes_at_hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:ablvft$2u4$05$2_at_news.t-online.com...
> > go for db2 certifcation !!!
> >
> > in bangalore everybody is migrating from oracle to db2 or ms-sql
> >
> > oracle is dead , to expensive, to buggy and to much adminstrative work !!
> >
> > we have 30 consultants who are doing nothing but defragmenting !
> >
> > every week the tables must be compressed into 1 extent for good
> performance
> >
> > export, import, lot of work , ibm is giving consultants for free for
> > migration
> >
> > db2 is much more intelligent solution , everything is working fine
> >
> >
> > "Danny" <prodbsolutions_at_yahoo.com.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:24637f40.0205120414.52445e96_at_posting.google.com...
> > > I have been into Progress DBMS for a couple of years. I have been
> > > thinking of taking an Oracle9i OCP certification exams in the near
> > > future, but I am new to Oracle and have only some Oracle database
> > > administration knowledge (such as quering tables, and upgrading tables
> > > structures). I have had Oracle8i installed on my Windows NT 4.0
> > > server, and it soon will be upgraded to Oracle9i.
> > >
> > > I would like to get one set of Oracle certification books, probably
> > > OCP Oracle9i DBA Certification Boxed Set (by Jason S. Couchman), and
> > > using all the resources available to get an Oracle9i OCP
> > > certification.
> > >
> > > Has anyone, with similar background as mine, passed the exam by doing
> > > the same (or similar) way?
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> > >
> > > Danny
> > > Progress Developer
> >
> >

You know I keep reading about Oracle losing market share, however, SQL Server jobs pay alot less than Oracle jobs, plus its usually lower end databases. I know DB2 is supposed to be good, but there really are not that many jobs for DB2 people. So I find this hard to believe.

Remember market share is not that simple. A SQL Server DBA sent me an article about SQL Server taking over the market. What he did not mention is that you can sell lots of copies of SQL Server for whatever they charge and still not create as many DBA or Developer jobs since one Oracle license could be a much larger project.

BTW, this is in the USA... Received on Sun May 12 2002 - 17:46:59 CDT