Re: Experience

I saw a interesting method at a different website.

Follow the steps outlined above, however if you break it or find a interesting feature :) write a whitepaper on it and publish on your own website or Oracle related website.
If you write a good script (and find noone else has done something similar) publish the script via oramag etc. Specialisation is more likely to get you a job, so play with some new features of Oracle and understand them and publish some results...

Getting the experience (to start with) is difficult, that is why demostrating your ability is important.
Offering to do unpaid work (pro-bono?) in return for references might help as well.

Have Fun

p.s. welcome to world of DBAs

     Get used to the fact the most common saying heard when there is a
     problem is
     "Must be a database problem".
     This will occur even when the database has been up (not including
     scheduled downtime) over a year, performance has improved out sight
     since you started... the life of a DBA :)

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