Re: 9i performance tuning - is this of relevance to 10g

On Feb 27, 9:55 pm, pellicleund...@xxxxxxxxxxx (obakesan) wrote:
Hi

In article
<2d231c35-5b70-46af-850f-f9d4f8290...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark D

Powell <Mark.Pow...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

How to chose what to take probably depends on which version of Oracle
do you mostly support and how long before you work mostly in the
higher version.

Ash yourself how long before you can put the information to work?

good question (and good frame of reference too)

the problem is that not being employed at the moment I'm taking this
opportunity to try to choose what's best for a market.

still, I'm not sure if performance tuning concepts in 9i are transferable to
10g?

See Ya
(when bandwidth gets better ;-)

Chris Eastwood
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Mark said it well. I'd add, you can't really predict the market, and
the barriers to entry you may have to overcome don't necessarily
equate with the work you will be doing (my experience has been there
is a real disconnect between the barriers and the work). The newer
stuff that oracle is pushing is GUI oriented, but it is also
expensive, and many smaller sites may not spring for it. So you need
to be prepared for your luck, you don't know if you will find a place
that is looking for a GUI-oriented body or an older tech place that
lost their non-GUI body. This boils down to Mark's advice - take the
newer classes, read, study and try the older stuff on your own.

No matter where you are in the world, there are many more smaller
places, and fewer but potentially more Oracle-expensive-option-
oriented larger places. The real trick is to find one of the latter
that will pay for the classes. But that's tough, of course.
(Personally, I've long thought that having a tutorial, then some
experience, then taking the class works best, but that assumes a long-
term view of employment that most companies just don't have).
Application development shows companies a fairly immediate return on
classes, and they need 10 times more developers than dba's, so another
way to go might be to concentrate on getting a dev job and sidle over
to dba work as you fix other developers performance issues, maybe the
dba will go away in the normal course of events. That risks being
stuck in the dev job if you are good, though.

jg
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