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Thanx, I second you.
Aleem
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From: Rama Malladi [mailto:rmalladi_at_inteliant.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: 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
OCP DBA with experience!
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