Hello Ed,
Re: Specific Training vs generic
I agree with this, however, when they run into trouble, knowing a
graphical interface does not do you much good. You STILL need to go to
the command line and this is what they need to realize. Granted, that
is a hard sell. I had some SuSE training and they specifically covered
webmin in detail YET webmin was not going to be used by our shop. Alot
of wasted time for us. But, people find the graphical interface easier
but which one would we test upon? Fedora's system-config* tools, YaST,
WebMin, redhat-config-* and somethings can not be done that way if there
is no network or graphical head, so what about the CLI tools.... It is a
varied world and knowing the basics is still important in my mind. I
would say if we add a LPIC certification on the administrative graphical
tools then it is really a .5 level certification. You still need LPIC-1
level of knowledge to know what to do if the graphical interface does
not come up if not a higher level of knowledge.
Re: DBA
When programming LAMP applications I will use stored procedures if the
version of mysql supports them. However, you are correct, most people do
not use them, or anything fancy. Just straight calls to a DB using the
interface. I think that a DBA certification should cover the most
popular Linux databases, and have at least two levels: Basic
Administration, and Programming. I think they are different. But then
again I am not a DBA but I am a LAMP developer and I use programmatic
access to the database and occassionally stored procedures.
-Edward Haletky
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