What is the value of Oracle OCP Certification. Is it worth the money?
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It all depends.  If you ever get in a downsizing situation (or a centers of excellence reorg) it sure would be a good idea to be the one dba holding a certification.  If your company has ever had the experience of hiring a bogus certified dba, they won't look at yours with any particular favor.
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http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=58
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my husband has these certifications and it has helped him a great deal.  These tests can be hard, but the work pays off. He used to do a lot of architectural drafting, but now that he has these certs, he also does IT with his job. The best advice I can give is to study, take the test and keep taking the test.  That's the best way to get certified - keep testing.
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It will all depend on preference. I prefer SAP, since they are the leader in ERP systems and I think there might be kinks with Oracle if you wanted to expand your ERP system, since they are probably trying to implement Peoplesoft into their ERP bundle.
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I recently saw this open source ERP at www.compiere.com\nSince their erp is open source, you can consider their prices to be lower with no license fee. However, the database that they use is Oracle 10G. There probably a fee to that. As for hardware, it depends on how many physical server your erp requires. I would think at least 2, one for application, another for database.\n\nFor more info erp systems, check out http://www.wareprise.com
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Its important that you first decide what type of support you want to provide.  Getting both is not likely to help you unless you are working as the single IT resource for a small company.\n\nAre you interested in networking?  Are you interested in Desktop support?  Are you interested in Databases?  Are you interested in hardware?  \n\nFigure out what you want to do and there are lots of certifications that you can get.\n\nSeek employment with a temp agency and see if you can be exposed to junior level support in all of the above areas and then you can select your career path.\n\nMCSE, (Microsoft Cert) CCNA (Cisco Cert) OCP (Oracle Cert) all are several thousand to attend a course and certify in.  Or you can self study and take the tests only for $100 per test.  Each cert has different requirements that change frequently.
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go to http://www.oracle.com/ and choose Education on the left side of the page.\nand find the many options you need
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Go with Oracle.  SAP is way too much money and they'll charge you in two years when the new release comes out.
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It all depends on the field of IT you work in...I believe year over year, the CCIE is the number one certification to have. From my understanding, if you have this certificate you can easily make 6 figures starting anywhere. Sys Admins are becoming more scarce do to companys sending over their datacenters over to India. A good place to look is www.dice.com to see what IT jobs are available and www.salary.com on the pay of each area.
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C, C++ are too important to join any domain. JAVA has lots of requirement. By Oracle, SAP and Data warehousing stream you can join in DBA or EA which is highly payable.\n\nRest upto you
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Absolutely no problem.\nI'm using an Oracle 8i both Client and Server Application in the place I'm working. No problem at all ...
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There is always ussable to learn Oracle, if it is completely necesary depends on what you want to learn about Oracle.\n\nIf you want to learn Oracle as a Database Administrator DBA - SQL is a complementary tool, altougth i believe it is not absolutely indispensable, since there exist many tools to do the administration tasks. (But if you take the DBA courses in Oracle, they will start with SQL, PL-SQL wich is the SQL of oracle).\n\nIf you want to learn Oracle as a Developer, if you are gonna be accessing the tables, and data from the tables to make calculation, or you are gonna develop forms to capture data, then it is absolutely necesary you to know SQL - PL-SQL. \n\nIn any case, learning SQL will always be usables, since the knowledge of the Standard SQL, you can use to work with almost any database, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Informix.\n\nThere is this site Oracle Technology Network, where you can find good information for capacitation. \n\nhttp://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
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CCNA is good (its a network certification though).  MCDBA is ok.  To be honest with you, its better to be an Oracle certified, its much more respected.  I took the first course for the MCDBA and my professor taught us 11th grade information such as what is a bit? what is an ethernet? so I rather learn that from work experience than pay for mcdba courses.
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Since mysql, Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft all offer free versions of their databases I am not sure who would pay money for a database.  Try selling something else.
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Yes, it is available, but as I can see, only in Developer Suite package.\n\nOn attached page there is a section "Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4)".\nI think it's what you need.\n\nBut as for me, better decision will be using the latest version of product, which is Oracle Developer Suite 10g (10.1.2.0.2).\n\nBTW, to download it, you must be a member of Oracle Technology Network. Became a member, if you don't yet. It's free and very helpful.
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There is a site called tahiti.oracle.com.\nThis site gives complete oracle documentation and is sponsored by Oracle.\nI think you will get that information on that site in detail.\nSo, try your luck.
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I nearly went on an IT training course but decided against it due to high fees (hundreds of pounds) for a Sybex book and "online support". Ask the British Computer Society. You'd probably be better off with more recognised organisations like your local university or your library.