"Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
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> OCP upgrades are just one part of experience and education for a DBA.
> If you take it too far before working with it every day, you might
> just as well not take it at all. If you take it after working with it
> for a long time, you might just as well not take it at all. There is
> some happy medium, varies by the type of learning each indivdual does
> best and their particular circumstances.
>
> If I sound like I'm defending or advocating OCP, I don't mean to. I'm
> just saying there is a place for The Party Line of O education within
> the context of being a competent DBA. The hard part is to not simply
> be another income stream for Oracle. There is a very great incentive
> there for O to think of it that way.
I do feel that this last that is part of the problem, if employers thought
that orgs like brainbench were better than vendors that would help. OTOH I
do sometimes feel that a lot of the criticism of OCP etc comes from folk who
have seen interview candidates but not done the tests themselves. Judging a
program by those who short circuit it is likely to be an unfortunate
standard.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 15:25:49 CST
