Re: Best way to gain experience?

"Matt M." <dont_bother_fake_email_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3ca4b7f8_at_news.mhogaming.com>...
> Hello all...I just completed my Oracle8i DBA some weeks ago, and have since
> began looking for an Oracle job. Obviously experience is better than paper,
> but it seemed like a good place to start. I didn't just memorize the stuff,
> I actually learned it so I've got a good foundation to work from.
>
> I have zero experience with Oracle in a company environment, and I'm
> wondering what the best way is that I can gain experience that would be
> valuable to a company and increase my chances of success while looking for a
> job. I've written a simple Visual Basic program that generates a lot of
> activity on a database in the hopes that I can simulate a working
> environment, but in the end it's just that: a simulation. It performs
> updates, inserts, selects, and deletes so I can practice recovery
> operations, performance monitoring, and tuning, and I was even considering
> making it into a more impressive project by having the program try to
> sabotage the database...but I'm looking for something more.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch in advance!
That is a good way to begin.There are entry level Oracle DBA positions out there Start looking and ask for a reasonable fee some one will get you in Michael Tubuo Ngong(Sr DBA) Received on Mon Apr 01 2002 - 18:01:50 CEST