RE: FreeOCP

Hi friends!
 There is a lots of talk about Paper DBAs on this message board. With due respect to all the veteran DBAs without OCP and new DBAs with OCP, I would like to make few comments from my own personal experience (spanning 9 years+ in USA, Europe and India)

 I have come across lots of long time DBAs with no OCP, who frown on OCP DBAs. Working closely with them, I noticed that these longs really count the hours to bill the clients. To my dismay, I came across 10+ years Oracle DBAs who had no clue about OPS, Partitioning, Snapshots, Stand by etc... They have gained experience over the years only because the client could not find a better alternative.

 At the same time, in the interviews and at work, I come across lots of new OCP DBAs who can do the job, but need lots support and help from the other DBAs. (It is sort of baby sitting).

 I was a DBA without OCP for long time and I had no problem in finding jobs without OCP. After I started preparing for OCP, I came to know of so many things that I did not know before. In my humble opinion, any OCP DBA with experience is lot better than a OCP DBA without experience or an experienced DBA without OCP.

 OCP helped me as a DBA to understand things that I did not know before. It took lots of time, confidence and enthusiasm to be a OCP DBA and change my self in the process.

 Without OCP, I would have been a Pumpkin DBA, doing clueless things in a random and unilateral way. Let's face it... OCP or No OCP is a matter of choice. But it helps to be OCP than be left-out and looking at SOUR GRAPES!!! Rama Received on Mon Dec 04 2000 - 16:51:43 CST