Re: OCP is not enough, need extensive experience

Hi Zack,

I advice not to go for a junior DBA position if you dont have scope for learning in your current employment. I am looking for a junior DBA position in India. But my worry is that I am working in a firm where DBA activities are very limited and there is little scope of getting good exposure, but I dont know the situation in the US.

Pramod

Zack Bethem <zbethem_at_NO-SPAMspeakeasy.net> wrote in message news:<ZMOdnf_n3Pwxd_qiRVn-gg_at_speakeasy.net>...
> Pramod Ramachandran wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I am a software professional working at Trivandrum, south India, with
> > around 4 years mixed experience in J2EE development, Crystal Reports,
> > Customer support, Oracle DBA activities and developer support in
> > PL-SQL. My worry is that I was not able to succeed careerwise in any
> > one of these areas since I have all these multiple responsibilities -
> > obviously because ours is a small organization. So last year I
> > thought of pursuing OCP (Oracle certified professional) programme and
> > secure a DBA job and I completed the course in about 6 months. But
> > adding to my misery I could not get a placement elsewhere since I am
> > an inexperienced DBA with no production experience. There is nothing
> > like entry level DBA and now I regret my decision. I have limited
> > responsibility as DBA - once in a week I take logical backup, I have
> > done some tuning activities , especially statement level and
> > modification of SGA size. This is nothing compared to the employers
> > expectations where extensive experience is required which is
> > impossible in my current employment. The only thing I could do is just
> > reading documentation, DBA handbooks, try to simulate scenarios and
> > play with them.
> >
> > We have an 8i database running in Win2000.
> >
> > I was late to understand that there arent many entry level DBAs and
> > most people I have met with extensive DBA experience are system admins
> > or developers turned DBAs. Now I am planning to switch back to J2EE
> > development.
> >
> > Do you agree with this ? Please advice.
> >
> > all suggestions welcome.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Pramod Ramachandran
>
> I too was thinking of making a career switch to DBA (earlier posting). I
> realized I'd be taking a pay cut, but continue to worry about getting
> that first junior DBA position. Are you only looking in India or
> elsewhere? Curious to the market conditions.
>
> Zack
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 12:31:36 CEST