Re: Career questions: databases

In response to "dreamznatcher" :

Looking back at your experience list, I don't think it's unreasonable to be "proficient" in Oracle, MySQL, and Access. You didn't claim "expert" or even "specialist", after all. The _salable_ skills are most likely to be Oracle and/or MySQL... Oracle because it is "industrial-strength, heavy-dute" and MySQL because it is "free or cheap and an incredible number of websites support it".

The Access may not be such a "selling point" but it will let you create modest applications using the server DB. And, despite intense buzz about enterprise-level ERP and CRM (Customer Relationship Management), it is those small-to-modest sized applications that really keep the business processes going in even enterprise-level organizations. And, with Access, you can crank them out before the IT department even has the first review of the request to prioritize it.

Just one request: read the FAQ at http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm for good advice on effective use of newsgroups. The particular item of advice I have in mind is... quote only enough to establish the context of your response; it is NOT necessary that each post quote all that has gone before (and, particularly when the indicators of quoted material go awry as they have in your posts in this thread, to make it difficult or impossible to determine what is old, what is new, and what order in which the discussion proceeded).

  Larry Linson
  Microsoft Access MVP Received on Sun Jul 01 2007 - 02:25:24 CEST