MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator)

[*ALFIE*]

Has anyone actually become a Database Administrator for a local company by taking up this specialist Microsoft course ? I am so tempted to doing this course to become a DB myself, but I always fear that I'd be spending so much (as i know how expensive these courses are) and not getting anywhere it. Plus, the fact that it may be damn hard, depsite the fact that I have studied computing. Its just that its been a good few years since I have studied anything technical and presently i am working as an office administrator for a local company.

Are these Microsoft courses really hard as people have said ? do they really get you anywhere ? Please help.

[Catso]

You don't HAVE to do the course to get the qualification, you can do it off your own bat. Just read some books and use the product.

IMHO, the exams are very hard if you've never done/used what it is they are testing you on, but reasonable if you have decent product knowledge, backed up by a bit of reading.

[Catso]

BTW, you aren't very likely to get a job just on the strength of the qualification. Employers will be looking for experience as well.

[futsysmids]

I had a friend who used to be a top engineer with SCC, who left to do the microsoft certified systems engineer course - it apparently took him 6 months to complete, so I assume he did all the course and exams that microsoft do, and it cost him at the time around �6000.

When he had finished the courses and passed everything, he ended up jobless - because he was so qualified that no one would take him on and wouldn't pay him what he was asking for.

It took him at least 12 months to get a job.

It's ok being qualified on paper, but after 20 years experience in the I.T. industry it's commercial experience that counts at the end of day.