Re: Oracle DBA Experience (need for)

   This is an indication that there really is no IT labor shortage, just a shortage of intelligent managers! If someone has taken the brains,time and money to get an OCP
and then live in a major metropolitan area there should be no reason for companies not to hire OCP's as junior DBAs. I have experience but no OCP but people want to interview me all the time.

      I suggest buying "Oracle Unleashed Second Edition" from Bookpool.com or eBay on auction and "Oracle8 Troubleshooting" by Velpuri & Adkoli as well as "Oracle database Construction Kit" in order to have experience deploying a sample database.

       Look at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble book reviews before you buy texts. The Oracle book on DBA Certification has extremely bad reviews, in that what is written is inaccurate according to experienced DBAs.

            Will Stewart

Rich Mycroft wrote:
>
> I know personally of an individual that spent a 1/2 year in training in
> order to get her OCP. Has no experience and no job. Read a post on one of
> the newsgroups from some guy in Chicago whose recruiter has seven resumes
> from similar people. It happens more than one would like to think.
>
> Rich
>
> "Flamingo Solutions" <flamingo.solutions_at_newbury.net> wrote in message
> news:39780c24_3_at_news.intensive.net...
> > "A.S." <asun_at_mindspring.com> wrote in message [Quoted]
> > news:8l5vbp$2cr$2_at_nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
> > > Is it possible to pass all five of the Oracle DBA certification exams
> > > without having any prior knowledge of Oracle or having any work
> > experience?
> >
> > I hope not! Surely putting OCP on your CV should suggest you know
 something
> > about Oracle. This is exactly the reason why I do not have any faith in
> > certification
> > provided by the company selling the software. A few multi-choice questions
> > do
> > not mean anything when you are faced with a production database that has
> > just
> > lost contact with half the disks that store its data files because of a
> > hardware
> > failure.
> >
> > > I have a working knowledge of JAVA and plan on taking a certification
> > > course. And if possible can anyone suggest any good certification school
 in
> > > NYC that costs less than 10k? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can
> > > extend me.
> >
> >
> >
  Received on Wed Aug 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST