Re: 2 year plan to expert

This interests me, I'm still absorbing copious amounts of information when it comes to Oracle, I've been learning Enterprise Database Systems (oracle 8+9) at University for the past year and it interests me greatly but with a University setting it's obvious that I can't actually get a true enterprise experience. I plan to do a masters to increase my knowledge after I finish Uni (Tempted to do Data Mining and Warehousing) but from then on the slate is effectively clean.

To those people in the industry, how did you end up where you are now? :) What would you do different and where do you think the industry is going?

Regards,

Anthony.

On 8 Mar 2004 09:22:07 -0800, Michael Cunningham <mcunningham_at_thedoctors.com> wrote:

> Hello all, I've been working with Oracle for about 8 years - since v7.
> I've always been a software engineer, but now am a DBA. I've learned
> a lot in the past 4 months, but, as usual, the more you learn, the
> more you realize you don't know. I'm trying to put together a 2 year
> plan to get to an expert level of DBA. I also need to learn about
> unix admin since I'm doing that as well, but for this question I'm
> just asking about oracle.
>
> Please feel free to give any info on how you feel I can achieve this
> goal: certs, training (class, CBT, books), web sites, your experience,
> etc. Do you think this is a fair time frame?
>
> Thanks, I look forward to hearing from everyone.

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