I, as my name states, am in "mid career", and am considering changing fields. I currently am involved with computers in the graphic arts field as a supervisor. I maintain our Graphics Database using Cumulus Software. I loved setting up the directory and structure of Cumulus and really enjoy maintaining our files. I'd love to do more of this type of work. I've been reading about computer careers when I came across DBA. I would love this type of work and am wondering how to really get started. I'm thinking that Oracle certification would be the way for me to get my foot in the door. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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others on this forum may be able to provide a little more insight than I can, but I'll give you my spin. My career is just about to begin, I'm going to be a senior in college next year. I shared similar interests in the field and was drawn to Oracle. I interned last summer and learned a lot about PL/SQL and am currently working as an assistant DBA / PLSQL programmer this summer. I just started the OCP DBA certification track and have found the material to be a good challenge. To be blunt, I would not have wanted to pick up these certification books without having at LEAST the year and a half development experience I've had. I have had minimal actual DBA experience, so we'll see how tough the later books are. I would suggest learning some PLSQL first on your own then getting a job doing that for a year or so, then try out the certification track. I am hoping it will give me a better job after I finish school.
others on this forum may be able to provide a little more insight than I can, but I'll give you my spin. My career is just about to begin, I'm going to be a senior in college next year. I shared similar interests in the field and was drawn to Oracle. I interned last summer and learned a lot about PL/SQL and am currently working as an assistant DBA / PLSQL programmer this summer. I just started the OCP DBA certification track and have found the material to be a good challenge. To be blunt, I would not have wanted to pick up these certification books without having at LEAST the year and a half development experience I've had. I have had minimal actual DBA experience, so we'll see how tough the later books are. I would suggest learning some PLSQL first on your own then getting a job doing that for a year or so, then try out the certification track. I am hoping it will give me a better job after I finish school.
srclarke07
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I concur. At least 2-3 years solid DBA experience is needed to ensure you really get the value out of certification. Otherwise, you're not really applying what you "know".
Besides, some questions in the exams are real curly ones (i.e. many correct answers) and only through experience will you be able to determine the "most" correct response.
Besides, some questions in the exams are real curly ones (i.e. many correct answers) and only through experience will you be able to determine the "most" correct response.
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