Sure you can e-mail me but I would prefer that you post your questions here so that others may also benefit.
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Sure you can e-mail me but I would prefer that you post your questions here so that others may also benefit.
Hi Sanjay Jha,
The test that you passed DB2, can you give the layout or point to some links....I mean for each test is it one module or more...
Thanks...
Morning Sanjay.
Interesting post considering I have the same cert goals.
I was planning to do a UDB cert so as I could see how the product had changed since my days on OS/390 v5. I don't see any harm in having certs for the two major competitors, only when the certs are mixture of products and disciplines.
My rule when putting my CV out: Get the agent to check what software the client has outside of the immediate role. I'll only include certs that the client may deem relevant and that relate to a job I actually want to do.
Re the DB2 cert process. By "Osbourne" I assume it was the All In One book by Sanders. Was it not up to much then? Does the CD contain an evaluation copy of Udb? I didn't think so from reading the cover.
Anyway stay in touch.
PS OCPGUY the IBM site is pretty good for cert info.
Cheers Nick
I am giving below some urls :
First of all you can get free CD for both DB2 and a CBT for DBA exam from IBM's site:
http://www.ibm.com/support/us/
Search there for UDB 7.2 (they have come out with 8.1 beta as well, but exam is for 7.2) You might have to register there and you may also order for free trial CD.
The CBT is very good material for Paper I.
Also following url has good study material for UDB(Paper1, don't confuse with the Study material title, it says about OLAP but it is good for Paper I as well):
http://www7b.boulder.ibm.com/dmdd/li...2cert_tut.html
Then check out this ExamCram Study guides at:
http://studyguides.cramsession.com/c...BM/default.asp
These are quite useful for last minute revision.
Of course you can go to
http://certify.torolab.ibm.com
Register there and score more than 75% online in their sample test(most of the questions are from IBM Press Certification Guide, so you can definitely score more than 75%!) and receive free voucher. I passed all the exams under that scheme!! Remember, the userid and password for this site can not be modified and also can't be retrieved, so be careful and note down that in a safe place!
Regarding the books which I mentioned in my previous post (IBM Press Certification Guide and the All In One book by Sanderss from Osbourne), I found them good to score 50% but you need extra 20% to pass the exam! I do not know how to quantify that, but it varies from people to people and may be some of you might find them enough to pass, but I did not find it as 100% safe guide to pass. Best option would be to practice little bit after installing the UDB on your machine. There is a Student Exercises (with answers!) for your practice available for free from IBM (Called Course Code CF281), don't remember where I downloaded that from(most likely it was with that CBT only, will let you guys know once I recall, meanwhile go ahead and search and if any of you find the url for that please post here for everyone's benefit). This student exercise is very good and if someone solves the entire exercise, he/she becomes "guru" of UDB!
Well enough to keep anyone busy for UDB Certification in this post, I guess!
Good Luck!
That is true. There is no need to make yourself a hybride. This type of DBA/Unix admin is sort of a silly combination, at least to me. They seem to know usually more about Unix (for it is easier than Oracle) and their Oracle knowledge might lead to at least a badly tuned database :-) They do everythig via cron jobs (they don't know usually of DBMS_JOB), they think that you can put all Oracle files on 2 or 3 mount points and they love all sort of disk configurations on hardware level. I have nothing againsts Unix admins but best work is achieved if they do their jobs, and Oracle guys do the Oracle stuff.Quote:
Originally posted by saturn
Most companies will hire someone to do DBA or Systems admin, not both.
Just a point of view, nothing more :-)
In the German freelance market, it is pretty common to see ads for Solaris Admin/Oracle DBA - probably more common than a PL/SQL - Forms / DBA position.
yup in spain as well, and I prefer this kind of job tooQuote:
Originally posted by dknight
In the German freelance market, it is pretty common to see ads for Solaris Admin/Oracle DBA - probably more common than a PL/SQL - Forms / DBA position.
I rarely see position asking for Oracle Developer + DBA (I probably saw twice that's it), but many asks for UNIX Admin + DBA (very common).
DBA are pretty tight to Operations departments here which includes Operating System/Databases/System monitoring/Capacity planning/Security/Application Servers, not much to do with development which sometimes can be a mistake or not (too busy, too much daily work to do to get involved with development anywayz)
There is a Yahoo! forum called ecert run by Padmam, who up until about a year ago, contributed heavily to this forum.
There is a lot of talk on the ecert forum about DB2 UDB.
Unless you don't run your bases on clusters, you don't need that much of Solaris knowledge. There are couple of dozens of commands in Unix which you need as a DBA. It is almost an assumption that a DBA knows the OS commands. But see, with the new versions of Oracle, you do more and more from within Oracle itself. You don't have to know shell scripts or whatever...
And yes, I think that knowledge of PL/SQL and other Oracle development tools are more important for an Oracle DBA than knowing in depth of OS. But I might be wrong...
julian you are probably the lucky one :D