| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
 |
 | |||
| Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid | |
|
| |||
Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: FreeOCP
I agree. A DBA with experience is a valuable asset. A DBA with OCP is even =
a greater valuable asset. They have taken the time to learn and study =
along with working and gaining experience. I don't even pretend to have =
some of the knowledge and experience that some of the members of this list =
have because I have not had the opportunity to be exposed to the different =
combination of equipment and software that is deployed in the industry. =
Each day there is a "new" supplier on the market that has a "bigger and =
better" way to use the Oracle database. Having a solid basic understanding =
and foundation along with a willingness and ability to learn, you can =
succeed at any opportunity that you are given. It is the willingness to =
share knowledge and experience that this list has that will help us all =
succeed in our own job positions current and future.
2 bits worth.
Check out the Nov/Dec issue of the Oracle magazine at www.oracle.com/oramag= . Interesting note about OCP-made easy and a Governor of Pakistan = offering free OCP testing to it's 1000 students.=20
ROR m=AA=BF=AAm
>>> rmalladi_at_inteliant.com 12/04/00 05:50PM >>>
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 experience=
d
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!
--=20
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com=20
--=20
Author: Rama Malladi
INET: rmalladi_at_inteliant.com=20
Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists --------------------------------------------------------------------To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may Received on Tue Dec 05 2000 - 07:22:05 CST
 |
 |