I have to agree.  I can see having an exam candidate know how to create
user accounts, grant privileges, etc.  But, I don't understand the
emphasis on manipulating data tables.  That should definitely be the job
of a database admin.

> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:58:01 +0200
> From: Reinier Kleipool <[email protected]>
> Subject: [lpi-examdev] SQL knowledge for LPIC-1
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
>   Today I was strolling trough the LPIC-1 objectives and discovered (to 
> my surprise) that cadidates are supposed to know
>> 105.3 SQL data management
>> insert, update, select, delete, from, where, group by, order by, join.
> Isn't this a bit tough for a (junior) system administrator. In my daily 
> practice I often have to install (set-up or configure) applications with 
> a database footprint, but I never use insert, update, group by, order 
> by, and join. The commands I *DO* use like: create database, grant all 
> on database.* to u...@host identified by 'secret'. And the command to 
> source a SQL script to prep a database are *NOT* in the exam objectives.
> 
> Why is that???
> 
> I think a competent system administrator should be able to create and 
> load databases and protect them. I do not think he needs to know all 
> intricacies of the SQL language. Thats a DBA job....
> 

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