Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.linkpendium.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 07:14:30 +1000 From: "Howard J. Rogers" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: OCP - Finish the 8i exams or startover on 9i track References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4099592c$0$25012$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.114.11 X-Trace: 1083791661 25012 203.164.114.11 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:260896 Matt wrote: > Definately finish the 8i stuff first, then upgrade to 9i.... > > Reason: You won't have to pay for an official Oracle training course > if you upgrade 8i to 9i... > > If you do the 9i track from scratch you must attend and pay for a 2000 > pound course... Are you certain about that? I seem to recall that anyone wanting 9i certification upgrade *had* to attend the 9i new features course (which is actually worth the 2000 pounds, actually). It's been a while since I cared about certification one way or another, though, so it could just be my brain cells mis-firing. Regards HJR