walterbyrd a écrit :
> There are not many jobs for regular full-time MySQL developers, or
> DBAs. Those duties are usually picked up by PHP devs, or Linux admins.
>
> But, what about consulting? I have heard there is a market for for
> MySQL consultants who know fairly high-level stuff, like replicating,
> and scaling.
>
> What sort of qualifications would an employer want for that sort of
> consulting? Are certs important?
>
> Lots of offshore companies do that sort of consulting, dirt cheap. Do
> USA companies have a chance?
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Hello !!

To become a MySQL Consultant, you DO PASS some certifications about
MySQL. These exams (DEV-1 and DEV-2 or DBA-1 and DBA-2) are necessary,
but a very good experience is necessary too.

So, if you want to take scalability, availability, clustering and
replication solutions with MySQL, you DO PASS another certification
"Cluster Administrator".

I think that's a very god opportunity, but some high level courses,
personal work and experience make you a good Consultant in MySQL
technologies.

In some countries, like France, Canada, Quebec,Germany,Ireland, England,
Italy, Spain, well the CEE, MySQL is present in industries, banks,
insurances, administration, nuclear, etc ...

It's an evidence that Oracle and Microsoft take a very large market, but
some BDD like MySQL and PostGreSQL are good ... and no expensive.

There is a lot of work ....

So believe, think and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!

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