Re: Oracle for beginner - advice please!

Hi Websurfer:

The site below may be of use to you for some learning, so take a look. (It's specific to Oracle on NT, but many of the same rules apply for all of the other platforms supported by Oracle.) Be prepared, server databases (like Oracle, Informix, DB/2, Sybase, etc.) are not at all like desktop databases such as dBase, Foxpro, Access, etc. If you can master it (and you actually like the self-torture :> ), you can be worth quite a bit on the technology market.

As far as training vs. experience, I believe they are both equally important and feed each other. Will a company hire you with a certification but no experience? With the global shortage of IT people, the answer is probably "yes", although you won't get an experienced person's salary until you get an experienced person's experience. Don't at all be discouraged, though: everyone has done something the first time at least once!

Best of luck!

--
David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm


Websurfer wrote in message <3679C643.539EF2FC_at_itnet.com>...


>To all Oracle experts and professionals:


>

>I only have a B.S. in Accounting.

>However, I took COBOL, PASCAL programming in college.

>Since I graduated, I have been working as a database

>administrator/programer

>using PC database softwares like DBASE, FOXPRO & ACCESS.

>I want to enter the Oracle field.

>Where should I start?

>

>I found a company offering courses in Oracle OCP and Oracle Developer.

>Which one should I take first?

>How much do those Oracle classes usually cost?

>

>My company is not currently using Oracle but planning to buy Oracle

>Financial.

>Which is the chance that a company would hire me after completing some

>Oracle

>courses, probably with a Oracle OCP but no real work experience in

>Oracle

>and no computer degree?

>

>Thanks in advance.

>