Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Yaël Chéenne wrote:
>> 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?
>> ============================================
>> 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 !!!!
>>
>> Regards
>> Forum
>>
>
> There is no requirement to pass any exams to be a consultant for MySQL
> (or any other product). In fact, I've found that as a consultant, very
> few prospective clients care about certifications. Experience is what
> counts.

Obviously it has been a while since you dealt with head-hunters and HR
types . If you don't have certs - even with 15+ years experience,
they won't even talk to you... From my perspective there are tons of
kids out there with "Cert-This" and "Cert-That" that shouldn't even be
allowed to own a computer, much less be a "DBA". And moronic
headhunters and HR that should leave qualifications to the experts.





> That's not to say certification isn't helpful. Adding certification to
> experience can give you a slight edge.
>

except that it might get you in the door - it won't help you keep your
job because you did something as silly as deleting a datafile because
your system was low on space. (Seen this done by "certified DBA" more
than a few times )