Re: Moving into Oracle Developer 2000

I sympathize;

You feel that you know it well enough to be doing it but no one will take a chance on your OTHER experience.

Some things are very similar to Oracle:

FoxPro uses similar event-driven programming Visual FoxPro is much like forms
SQL of any kind will be useful,
PL/SQL has the same feel as PL/I
if you've done any of that.

Any 4GL programming at all will
help.

The best I can think to do is build
a real, original application, (with some or all elements satisfying someone else's requirements) and bring it to demonstrate (or print screens that you can confidently discuss).

BTW, since you've worked on the internals of a database, have you thought about Oracle Inc.?

Mike R.

Mark Wallace wrote:

> I was wondering what comments or thoughts anyone may have on my current
> situation.
>
> I have been an application developer for the last 9 years on a database
> called 'Universe'. In the last 2 years I have decided from a career
> point-of-view (and technically challenging p-o-v) I was not going anywhere.
> The database is not being further developed and there is not real progress
> in terms of the software.
> So about a year ago I started cross training myself into Oracle. I have
> since completed most of the courses that I felt would give me what I need.
> This being a definite career path, money and mostly for me a very
> technically interesting future. (what with Oracle 8i, java etc...)
> Anyway I have since studied
> SQL,
> PL/SQL
> Developer 2000, forms I (ver 5)
> Developer 2000, forms II (ver 6)
> Developer 2000, Reports (ver 2.5)
> I have also worked a lot with Visual Basic and have done a little
> programming with JAVA.
>
> I feel that this gives me a very good grounding in Oracle and for the
> development that I would like to do in the future.
> I am now based in London and would appreciate suggestions on what the best
> way would be to get into a job where I can gain the experience I need to
> become a proficient Oracle / Developer 2000 programmer.
> All the jobs that I look at seem to have a minimum requirement of 2 years
> Oracle experience.
> This almost puts me back to the days when I was first looking for a job, in
> that you can not get a job because you have not experience but you can't get
> experience because you can't get a job.
> A typical catch22.
> Even though I have many years development experience and I have all the
> required training this does not seem to help when it actually comes to
> looking for a job.
>
> I am almost at my wits end. As I said any suggestions on how to resolve this
> problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mark
Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 02:38:15 CEST