On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tcat's response is fairly accurate. When surveying thousands of > individuals at the targeted levels (Jr admin w/ under 2 years, and Sr > admin w/ 4 years experience) database administration wasn't a predominate > skill required to do their jobs as Linux System Administrators.
Unlike Samba and Apache, where there is one, distinct and common service for each, databases are _definitely_ vary based on application. Even just looking at the Big-2--er, Big-3: MySQL, PostgreSQL and Firebird, that's 3 you have to consider. And you might even consider a 4th, Sleepycat, which has a heavy adoption rate despite the lack of acknowledgement (it's BSD licensed so it's embedded quite a bit). MySQL AB is also coming out with their own certification exams, all while merging in the SAP DB code transfer. I haven't checked the status of the exams since mid-last year, so I don't know where they are at (released now?). And how deep do you go with the questions? Basic ANSI SQL '92, '99? Or do we get DB-specific? That's definitely way out there for a LPIC-1 or LPIC-2 exam, unless you just talk about basic service, account and logging facilities. So I'd leave it as a "good suggestion" for a LPIC-3 exam, SQL '92 and/or SQL '99. It takes time and effort to crank these things out, but if LPI is going to look at it in the future, I'd recommend there. One Level 3 exam that is general. >From there, the DB vendors could decide if they want to pair it with their own, LPIC-3 aligned, DB-specific exam. Kinda what SuSE is doing with the LPIC-1/LPIC-2, only for DBs, and at LPIC-3. But that's up for the DBs to decide, assuming LPI would want to invest the time and efforts into a DB-specific LPIC-3 exam in the first place. -- Bryan J. Smith, LPIC-2 Disclaimer: I am not an employee of LPI nor do I speak for LPI. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
