Re: Is Sr. DBAs afraid of not be able to pass cert exam ??

Thank you for feeling the need to add personal insults ("Then you're a fool. Anyone with half a brain") to the group. Couldn't you have possibly posted your opinion without dropping into the gutter?

And I strongly disagree with your statement "Anyone with half a brain can learn everything they need to know about Oracle in a single job in less than a year". I doubt there is a single senior Oracle developer or DBA that feels they learned everything they needed in three years. In fact the longer I work in Oracle the more I realize I don't know.

I'd also like to express my agreement with Tom Dyess when he states "Certification exams, ..., require you to know a ton of useless information." That is my opinion too. But not just certification exams. Also those canned exams that are sold to HR departments that supposedly help determine who is qualified and who is not. They are, at best, laughable.

Daniel Morgan

Keith Boulton wrote:

> > there isn't anything to gain, why bother? If I had a choice of hiring
> > someone with 4 years experience and OCP and someone with 10 years of solid
> > experience, I'd choose the latter every time. The problem with
>
> Then you're a fool. Anyone with half a brain can learn everything they need
> to know about Oracle in a single job in less than a year. The only other
> thing they need to know is how to find out the stuff they don't yet know as
> and when they need it.
>
> After that, it's a matter of what's required for the job: oracle apps, data
> warehousing, how the client software interacts with the database...
>
> Most knowledge acquired more than 5 years ago is utterly irrelevant.
>
> There is no practical difference between 4 and 10 years experience - at that
> point, the issue is the difference between candidates' understanding, talent
> and motivation.
>
> I've worked with many people with 10 years experience which consisted of the
> first year repeated 10 times.
Received on Wed Jan 30 2002 - 06:40:46 CST