DBAs,
Someone had recently asked about OCP tasks
Bit diverted, this is what I feel about Oracle DBA track...
- Read RDBMS books, Read Oracle Manuals, Good textbooks and get a solid
foundation.
- Have a test lab and try the things out hands on.
- Do certification to
- Understand the different aspects which one might not encounter
during normal working. OCP gives you a wider view of 'What Oracle
can do.' But OCP does not make you a master in it. You would need
to study and practice and read and experience.
- Have it on your resume so that you are not rejected by some foolish
'n'
unknowledgeble HR people even before you go to the real technocrat for
interview.
- Know that how simple is OCP and comment on it authentically after
doing it :)
- Now that one has got basic foundation, read 'more' about RDBMS and
application
design (Normalization, Data Modelling, ERD, Effective DB application
design)
to understand and use Oracle features better. (Date, Korth,
Navathe/Elmsari)
- Study the advanced topics in Oracle. Study OS related stuff. (Peterson)
- Get experiences of different kind of projects like
- Pure development
- Transision to Production (Implementation)
- Migration from lower Oracle version to higher Oracle version in
production
- Porting from different RDBMS to Oracle
- Re-enginnering and at the same time porting from from lower Oracle
version
to higher Oracle version during this development phase and making
maximum
use of available features in newer version
- 24x7 Production monitoring in different types
- Advanced topics... OPS, Replication...
- Designing new application
- Data Warehousing
- Tuning
- Hit Security requirement scenarios
- Different Operating Systems.
Received on Fri Dec 01 2000 - 09:38:49 CST
