Re: Oracle Career question
Date: 1995/06/13
Message-ID: <DA5KpC.K3D_at_indirect.com>#1/1
Glenn Stauffer <stauffer_at_swarthmore.edu> wrote:
>>Depending on the complexity of the project you work on you can master skills early/late.
>>I do think knoledge of some kind of oracle tool programming as well as some extent of
>>data modelling and analysis experience is essential to become a good DBA. You can
>>become proficient in 2 years if you work at it.
>>
>What are the key tools? PL/SQL, SQL, Pro*C? Forms? Others?
>Are Oracle's courses in data modelling and analysis good - or - is it
>preferable to do self-study from a good text?
>Any course suggestions to fill out the knowledge that comes from
>experience?
IMHO the Oracle classes are a good investment, but they are expensive. Even though I knew some of the information in the Oracle classes, the actual hands on experience was still usefull. From my perspective, the classes were worth it.
My suggestion for filling out your knowledge is to read as much as possible. It also doesn't hurt to practice. I can say from experience, that if I had not gone through restoring and rolling forward a database after a media failure, I would not have been able to do it when I lost a disk for real.
And BTW I have 4 Oracle Master's certificates ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
Noah Monsey noah_at_indirect.com========= ========= ========= ========= ========= The only dumb question is the one that you don't ask. ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= Oracle Master Database Administration, April 1992 Oracle Master Application Development, April 1992 ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= Received on Tue Jun 13 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST