DWUTKA at marlow.com
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Mon Feb 21 12:43:25 CST 2005
LOL. Depends on what you have at home, of course. I've developed a few personal projects, just for the fun of experimentation. Drew -----Original Message----- From: randall.anthony at cox.net [mailto:randall.anthony at cox.net] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:34 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then? Drew, I surmise you didn't read my first post to Steve's poll. No job = no environment to practice in. At least now in the part where it says experience, I can check off the formal training/certification part which indicates I know enough to be dangerous. <bg> Randy. > > From: DWUTKA at marlow.com > Date: 2005/02/21 Mon PM 12:43:52 EST > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: RE: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then? > > Not sure why certifications did much there. Simply using the environment > should bring you up to speed. I guess a cert, if setup right, might expose > you to areas you normally don't use..... > > Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: randall.anthony at cox.net [mailto:randall.anthony at cox.net] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:37 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then? > > > Steve, > > Drew wrote: > "They wanted a VB/SQL guy, and even though I had a lot of Access experience, > I had very little SQL experience. However, what killed my interview, was my > 'iffy' SQL abilities. Not SQL > Server, but the actual query language. I was asked a lot about joins, > etc,and even though I understood the questions and answers, I had a > difficult time just 'rattling' things off. It was because I had become very > dependant on Access' query builder." > > This was an experience I encountered also. I had one interview where they > liked the Access and SQL, but "can you do .Net?". Nope. Another interview > was just as Drew described. This solidified my decision to seek certs. > Whereas I knew how to spell .Net, I now (at least), know what a namespace > is. > > My curriculum included programming with VS, VB, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML (which > also included sections on upgrading from ASP, etc), SQL administration and > programming, and 2003 server administration. > > Randy. > > > > From: Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> > > Date: 2005/02/21 Mon AM 11:22:02 EST > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > > Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: What are you lot doing now and then? > > > > Jim, > > > > I suppose if ALL other factors were equal, then a prospective employee > > would have an edge if he had a cert. Out of the 21 responses I got, > > only four people had MS certs of any kind. Only one of those -- Randy > > Anthony -- had CURRENT certifications. Amazing. > > > > Steve Erbach > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:07:53 -0500, Jim Dettman > > <jimdettman at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > Steve, > > > > > > None here. One of the surprises I got was how little certifications > are > > > valued. Seems like most really don't care about them. > > > > > > Just shows you that quality does speak for itself. > > > > > > Jim. > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com