Re: Poll: Expert user vs. Internals Expert

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:33:44 GMT
Message-ID: <c5Mcg.12127$A26.288580@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Rich Ryan wrote:

> To be considered a relational database expert ( in the eyes of a potential
> client) , is relational theory more important than knowledge of the
> internals and administration of a particular implementation(Oracle, MS SQL
> Server, MySQL)? Or the other way around.
>
> Rich

Since most potential clients have no way of measuring one's knowledge of theory and since most potential clients in north america confuse theory with idealism, most potential clients use alphabet soup of some sort or another to pick candidates.

This is especially so for full-time employment where the HR department's sole job is to restrict the number of resumes for further consideration.

By far, the most productive are those who have solid knowledge of both. Received on Tue May 23 2006 - 17:33:44 CDT