RE: OCP guidance(ranting)

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnowtech.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 06:42:21 -0600
Message-Id: <10564.112526@fatcity.com>

At my previous place of employment there was (and still is) a developer = who
took the OCP DBA tests and passed'em. So, now he's an OCP DBA with absolutely no real-world experience. He doesn't know how to start up a database but he has the shingle.

But, the OCP makes him more marketable, and when he starts looking for another job he'll be a step ahead of non-OCP's.

OCP sure doesn't make you a better DBA, but it helps get your foot in = the
door.

--Walt Weaver
  Bozeman, Montana, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: paquette stephane [mailto:stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:15 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OCP guidance(ranting)

In fact, in busy days I liked those posts as I just deleted whithout reading them.

For the story, I had to hired a dba to replace me at a client, I've seen 5 OCP DBA , none of them knew how to used tkprof or what was the difference between an hash join and a nested loop.

Stephane Paquette
DBA Oracle NON OCP=20
stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com
spaquette_at_houra.fr
(33) 01 53 93 06 50

• "Joseph S. Testa" <teci_at_oracle-dba.com> a =E9crit=A0:
  > Why is are so many people on the list so big on OCP,
  > learn to be a DBA
  > first, the OCP will be easy enough after you learn
  > the basics. Being
  > OCP does NOT make you a good DBA( recruiters on the
  > list are you
  > LISTENING??????).
  >=20
  > and yes I'm OCP but I got 8 years of oracle dba
  > experience to back it
  > up, only reason I took it was my current employer at
  > the time, paid for
  > the tests and gave me 3K bonus to pass it.
  >=20
  > Joe
  >=20
  > --=20
  > Joe Testa http://www.oracle-dba.com
  > Oracle 8i documentation online
  > http://www.oracle-dba.com/oracle-docs
  > --=20
  > Author: Joseph S. Testa
  > INET: teci_at_oracle-dba.com
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