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Studying for Database Jobs

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  • 02-10-2007 6:25pm
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    missingtime
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    So I working on a Service Desk as an Assistant Team Manager and looking to further my career a notch.

    Does anyone have any experience in studying for database jobs off their own back - lost a lot of the Programming practice during my time in the company.

    What should I be working on at the moment?

    I have a couple of e-books and a software called Xammp - which is pretty cool, seems to emulate an Apache server incorporating MySQL, PHP and Perl - and I'm working away on the chapters, slowly but surely.

    Do interviewers turn their noses up at people who do not have the college background (I have a Degee in Computing mind) or significant experience?

    Any advice greatly appreciated....


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    DublinWriter
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    missingtime wrote:
    Do interviewers turn their noses up at people who do not have the college background (I have a Degee in Computing mind) or significant experience?
    Well, if you have a Degree in Computing, what exactly would you term a 'college background'?

    I would steer clear of programming unless you completely loved it. It's been completely debased as a profession within IT over the past 20 years.


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    missingtime
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    DublinWriter wrote:
    Well, if you have a Degree in Computing, what exactly would you term a 'college background'?

    I suppose I mean that its been a while since I've done much Programming or database work and my biggest concern would be that the majority of what I have learned would not be fresh in my head...
    DublinWriter wrote:
    I would steer clear of programming unless you completely loved it. It's been completely debased as a profession within IT over the past 20 years.

    This is the thing, I wasn't too keen going down the programming route but I do remember liking database programming when in college. To be honest I'm not sure what I want to do in the IT field and databases seemed like a good option.

    What do you mean that it has been debased as a profession?


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    Ginger
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    Have a look over at the IT Cert forum (http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=882)

    Currently quite a bit of work in Business Intelligence, data warehousing, data mining and the like.

    Do you want to be an admin or a developer.


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    missingtime
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    I would prefer to go in to development really.

    Thanks for the replies though guys... will take a look at the IT Cert Forum.


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    Ginger
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    on the MS platform there is a the Database Developer certification which is aimed at what you want to do


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    DublinWriter
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    missingtime wrote:
    What do you mean that it has been debased as a profession?
    Programming is not as good as a job as it was 10+ years ago.

    On the whole, organisations have moved from bespoke software developed in-house to large scale ERP solutions. There aren't that many interesting pure-programming jobs about these days.

    You also need to qualify what you mean by 'database programming'. Are you talking about pure server-side programming, such as Oracle's PL/SQL or SQL Server/Sybase T-SQL? Or are you talking about developing web-based applications?


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    missingtime
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    Thanks for getting back to me on this.

    Not sure on this one. I like the idea of the the server side programming but I guess I would have to look into it a bit more.

    Hopefully I can try and get knuckled down and put some work in. Picking a champions league week to start studying probably wasn't a good bet...


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