Hello, I have completed my Oracle DBA certification on 9I 5 years back but somehow I stuck working with support industry with ITIL related stuff. Now I want to switch my profile. Is it possible if I brush up my skills and try for a technical profile? I want to get into Oracle related profile.
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Yeah you can. But Oracle DBA certification 5 years back will not help you. DBA is completely dependent on hand on exercise. You can try Oracle plsql or Oracle Business Intelligence(OBIEE) or you can try to Big data Analytics. Atleast you can showcase Oracle plsql knowledge and OBIEE knowledge or any...
read more Yeah you can. But Oracle DBA certification 5 years back will not help you. DBA is completely dependent on hand on exercise. You can try Oracle plsql or Oracle Business Intelligence(OBIEE) or you can try to Big data Analytics. Atleast you can showcase Oracle plsql knowledge and OBIEE knowledge or any other ETL tools which help you switch your jobs. read less
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Abhishek it's little hard to move with DBA. Because within 5 years oracle changed lots. DBA jobs completely depend on hand on exercise. It's good you can try through pl SQL or OBIEE or any ETL tool and DBA certification as added knowledge. After entering into any company you can showcase your DBA knowledge...
read more Abhishek it's little hard to move with DBA. Because within 5 years oracle changed lots. DBA jobs completely depend on hand on exercise. It's good you can try through pl SQL or OBIEE or any ETL tool and DBA certification as added knowledge. After entering into any company you can showcase your DBA knowledge and move into DBA position. But honestly speaking 5 years of old DBA certification it may Oracle11g will not help me more. Try to learn pl SQL or OBIEE which will be a comparatively good market and easy to learn. Best of luck. read less
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Abhishek it's touch to move with DBA after 5 years. DBA jobs fully depends on hands on exp. You can try with pl./sql or OBIEE. Or you can try any fusion middle ware software like SOA, forms & reports.
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Yes, It's possible.
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Hi Abhishek, if you did your Oracle 9i OCP with proper knowledge and experience, I don't think it would be tough for you return to DBA fold. Through Oracle has moved a lot since 9i, the fundamentals are mostly same. I would suggest you to first learn about Oracle 11g and then move to the latest 12c....
read more Hi Abhishek, if you did your Oracle 9i OCP with proper knowledge and experience, I don't think it would be tough for you return to DBA fold. Through Oracle has moved a lot since 9i, the fundamentals are mostly same. I would suggest you to first learn about Oracle 11g and then move to the latest 12c. It might take some time for you, but it is not impossible. Best of luck. read less
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Hey Abhishek, As you have completed certification on 9i and that too 5 years old. So my suggestion would be either you brush up for oracle 11g DBA certification or look into oracle pl/sql if you want move into development. Another out of box solution is to look for spark and scala which is new in market...
read more Hey Abhishek, As you have completed certification on 9i and that too 5 years old. So my suggestion would be either you brush up for oracle 11g DBA certification or look into oracle pl/sql if you want move into development. Another out of box solution is to look for spark and scala which is new in market and will give you good direction to your career. All the best. read less
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Oracle DBA seems to be evergreen area. Though with Cloud offerings market shares are getting changed. It will be easy to upgrade your skills to latest and greatest in Oracle as you have background, but you may also want to assess cloud solutions out there from AWS/Azure/Oracle.
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Abhishek,We are running a Complete DBA Program(Oracle 11g/12c DBA,MySQL DBA and Amazon AWS Services) for professionals like you which want to switch job in DBA field We have trained 2-+ professionals under same program and placed then as DBA with MNC's.
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Yes, it is possible to proceed but you need proper guidance and perfect job search,
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