While surfing the Net and unconsciously thinking about my standing in the I.T. market, I came across a link that tells Frequently Asked Questions about Java and Oracle. I'm still browsing through it while making this blog post. What's the fuss?
Well, two of the latest job interviews I've attended asked me if I'm familiar or have used Oracle. Of course, my answer was... Guess what? No! The database tools I know now strongly influenced but the tools I have studied during College, mainly, MySQL and SQLServer. I have never used Oracle before in my job(though I have tried express at home hehehe).
In the Java market as I understand it today and at least with my current experience level there are 5 things that I think would help me get a fair number of companies' eye on me.
1. Java, Servlets and JSP, JDBC
2. Struts Legacy
3. Hibernate
4. Eclipse
5. Oracle
I did not bother trying to mention credentials because for some it's considered crap. I have atleast 3/5 things I've mentioned. I know only a little about hibernate(little depends on whom you ask), I find JPA easier to use(still not an expert with this one though). The only one really missing is Oracle. You could do a search in jobstreet and I'm sure lots of them would inlcude Oracle as a requirement. Although with the advent of ORM tools, I dunno what significance Oracle would bring in my development. It may be more of just a marketing thing on my part but not really helpful in my development. I'm gonna try to search my backup CDs again or just download the latest copy of Oracle Express and learn the darn thing during weekends.