Re: Visual Basic and Oracle

You have come to the right place b/c there are many experienced programmers here who can offer you good advice.

I'll start by saying the following. VB is dead. M$ is in the process already of slowly killing it off and replacing it totally with VB.NET.

Check out: http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/

Check out: http://www.inprise.com/kylix/

Linux/ Unix people get paid some two to three times as much as the M$ cutters and pasters that are a dime a dozen. The enterprise is looking for stability and flexibility and adaptability. M$ is a lock-in. And lock-ins leave you high and dry when the big boys decide to dump an installed base and force you to move over to another ad hoc technology such as VB.NET.

The answer to your questions, the places to go, I have given you above. Be broad minded, develop rare but needed skills and you will command twice the salary as the current glut of VB dunderheads.

"H_H" <gucciard_at_Bayou.UH.EDU> wrote in message news:Pine.OSF.4.21.0103262220210.26851-100000_at_Bayou.UH.EDU...
> Hello,
>
> I am working as a software engineer, but I'd like to make a career change
> and go into the database field. Specifically, I'd like to eventually
> become an Oracle DBA.
>
> Considering that I don't have any working experience in databases,
> I was told that it would be hard for me to be hired as a DBA.
>
> I noticed many companys want to hire junior VB programmers.
> In your experience, do you think that a position as a Visual Basic (+ SQL
> Server or Access) programmer would help me get started, or do you think
> this would be a bad career choice/path to begin with?
>
> Do you think that, let's say, 2 years down the road, a company would want
> to offer me an Oracle-related job even though I have experience in
> Access and SQL Server as supposed to in Oracle?
> I would greatly appreciate it if you shared your point of view on this.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
Received on Tue Mar 27 2001 - 06:39:35 CEST