I will admit to getting mine simply as part of an ego trip. I figured that
after 15 years of being an developer/DBA with Oracle I should have one. Has it
made a difference to my salary or employment potential? Not one bit.
Dick Goulet
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Date: 3/20/2003 9:24 AM
I held out for 8 years as an Oracle DBA. I had been sent to training and
interviewed Oracle DBA's and worked for Oracle as a DBA consultant w/o
having the certification. It was based on my personal reputation,
experience, network and interview. Those I believe still count more.
However, in this tight IT market and with Oracle not doing altogether well
in the RDBMS market it's all good. Just get it on the cheap I say. Also,
it may be the tie breaker for a new job. I wouldn't expect reimbursement or
automatic job raise on this alone with the market in IT being what it was.
Plus I got annoyed with this being used to justify the invalid argument of a
much less experienced, less talented person by a pointed-haired management
type.
Oracle OCP DBA
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Dang, I gotta get a copy of that report to my manager! After going
through the 7.3, 8, 8i and 9i OCP AND the OCM, I don't think any of them
got me a pay increase! ;)
Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!"
Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
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Foote Partners surveys the value of certifications. They support that
over the past two years, the OCP pay premium increased by nearly 40%. In
the same period, the value of Microsoft MCP declined by nearly 60%.
A good article on the value of certifications.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936853,00.asp
I don't see where they included the Foote data online. It is in the
eWeek magazine 3/17/03 edition, page 50.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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RE: Value of OCP
I held out for 8 years as an Oracle DBA. I had been sent
to training and interviewed Oracle DBA's and worked for Oracle as a DBA
consultant w/o having the certification. It was based on my personal
reputation, experience, network and interview. Those I believe still count
more. However, in this tight IT market and with Oracle not doing
altogether well in the RDBMS market it's all good. Just get it on the
cheap I say. Also, it may be the tie breaker for a new job. I
wouldn't expect reimbursement or automatic job raise on this alone with the
market in IT being what it was.
Plus I got annoyed with this being used to justify the invalid
argument of a much less experienced, less talented person by a pointed-haired
management type.
Oracle OCP DBA
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From: Pete Sharman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:36 PM
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Subject: RE: Value of OCP
Dang, I gotta get a copy of that report to my manager!
After going
through the 7.3, 8, 8i and 9i OCP AND the OCM, I don't think
any of them
got me a pay increase! ;)
Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
"Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than
that!"
Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:50 AM
To: Mult
