Don't be offended by that. My head is clear that I never look down or up on people who have or not have paper degree.

It is a widely known situation on this company that many people work in this department have the problem on peforming their jobs to the satisfactory level. Such as one of the senior DBAs claims to have OCP7,8,and 8i asked the user what they wanted her to do next b/c the listener was up but users cann't connect to a "NEW" database.

BTW, I am very pleasant to work with. I never tell or indicate how incompetent my co-workers unless my manager request my input. And, I work very well with developers. That is the reason that my manager receive a lot of compilment about me from all the teams I work with.