Andrei DANEASA

and it’s time to look back a bit and see what this year brought me:

• a daughter to come
• an excellent summer vacation
• OCP DBA certification
• my first visit to US at our hq
• lot of confidence
• more technologies to cover
• lot of gadgets

… and it didn’t bring me:

• a salary increase
• a bonus
• a promotion

I will count it as a good year on personal side and a neutral to bad one on the professional side.

Happy new year !

I never considered myself a good DBA and it’s not necessary my plan to become one. But in order to be convincing to the partners I had to take this certification.
After few months of study and exercises I took 1z0-043 (Administration II) exam on 18th of December. I passed it with 96,9% and this made me very proud.

Of course I will need to take the upgrade exam to 11g and I am pretty sure I will forget some of the things if I am not facing them on a daily basis but it was a very good lecture.
What will be the benefits? Don’t know… a diploma and a certification card for sure, 40% discount on some Oracle press books and maybe knowledge and confidence…

I’m open to share my experience with anybody interested in taking this certification