On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 7:51 -0700 6/10/03, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:03:51PM +0200, rich johnson wrote: > >> Has anyone else tried this? I got 8/10. Going to the exam next week; > >> I suppose that's a good sign :-) > >> > >> http://www.mysql.com/certification/selftest/core/index.php > > > >I don't know if we all get the same questions, but I was disappointed > >in some of those I was asked. One was like: > > > >"Is this syntax valid in MySQL?" > > > > [some query] > > > >What's the point of such a question? Anyone with access to MySQL can > >find out by simply running the query. > > You don't have access to MySQL during the test. You have to know > whether or not the syntax is correct.
Of course. That's not the issue. It's a complaint that I have with most standardized tests and/or certification programs. But MySQL bucks the trends so often, I expected it to happen here too. > >Anyway, the two I got wrong were both the result of not having a MySQL > >parser built in to my head. > > Now that surprises me. (That you don't have a built-in parser. :-)) Yeah. I should really work on that. :-) -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 4.0.13: up 7 days, processed 226,669,886 queries (351/sec. avg) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
