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>> I told them how I could contribute - strengths and weaknesses. >> I'm great at *****. I don't know much about YYY, but I'm willing to >> learn......We cannot know everything.....
Well, at least you have to know more than the person asking the questions :-). As a consultant I regularly run across people who have taken the 20-minute-online-CD prep and gotten mid-level DBA jobs. Once in they're a rather inoperable form of cancer.
I've actually had better luck in most cases by explicitly knowing what I don't know. e.g., for Oracle [at least slightly on topic] I don't claim to understand all of the memory managlement and trigger changes from 8.1.X to 9.0. I also don't claim to know all the foibles of their new substitute construction system. This beats not knowing about it at all.
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Received on Wed Dec 26 2001 - 01:43:44 CST
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