Re: certification

>None. The certification is meaningless in almost all cases.

>From the "real-world" perspective of being a capable DBA, I think that
certification really proves little (I should know, I'm taking it), but from a marketing perspective it can make a difference.

Unless you have steel trap for a mind, information learned on courses will vanish over time. But skills that you use day in and day out for months in a real working environment will tend to stick..

Graham: Unfortunately, were I a potential employer, I would not be impressed by certification alone. I say that as a technical person who's taken my share of courses / exams, and retained about 2% of the material they covered. I would be interested in how long you had been working with the product, and in what kind of environments? A development environment versus an operational environment will equip you with different kinds of skills over time; meeting deadlines versus dealing with the unpredictable, for example.

I am a junior/intermediate Oracle DBA, and have been working at it for almost a year and a half. And I'm still in Elementary school as far as I'm concerned. So if you need to become an "expert" in Oracle quickly... All I can suggest is live it, breathe it, focus your every waking breath on it. If not, then it will just take TIME.

BD Received on Tue Mar 07 2006 - 17:07:00 CST