At 09:50 PM 6/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do
>you actually want to learn database administration?
>
To a large extent I agree with you about the relative unimportance of paper
qualifications. However, one thing that a formal course of study is good
for, is to make you aware of all the nooks and crannies of your chosen
subject. For instance, if you are self-taught, and the subject of
replication never comes up, you may never even *know* that it exists. Or,
unless you are very self-disciplined, you may never do anything with crash
recovery until actually presented with the need (a bad time to be learning
it, IMO).
So if you are going to go the self-study route, have a formal plan of some
kind -- whether it's getting hold of the course curriculum for Oracle
courses, of just getting some good DBA books and going through them
beginning to end.
Dennis Taylor
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