Re: Newbie

The best training I know if is Oracle Support - you get get to see tons of real world problems in a short period of time and get paid for it. You would learn much more about real DBA work than any training program. I've been interviewing DBAs to hire and the certification thing is turning out to be more of a red flag than anything else. The people I've met who did the certs (not all of course) tend to know the test answers but have no idea how things actually work, and when the database goes down and doesn't recover like the books said it would, it makes a world of difference to understand what the possibilities are.

Best
Kyle

In article <3a71d00c_2_at_news1.prserv.net>,   "Dan" <trust_at_mysincere.com> wrote:
> I am considering a career change and am very interested in the OCP
 DBA path.
> I am a newbie. No Oracle experience (or access to a server/database)
 and no
> real programming or network experience. Can someone offer some
 guidance on
> how to get started? How to obtain experience, best training (Oracle
 U.,
> Sylvan, etc) and any other advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Please email me at bdhanse_at_attglobal.net . Thanks much!
>
> Dan
>
>

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