Database Administrators On Nairaland

Now u r talking cos if it is for a job, in nigeria, forget it!

which ever one it is, go for it! since we dont have real life scenarios to work with in this country, we need as much materials with different angles to get us into the 'feel'

Yes o, I agree with you work experience is a whole lot more than just passing a certification!

@Cabali, why hiss?

Na wah for u o!

U don bring your attitude come here

I've just had my oracle 10g certification and also looking for a job to get experience.

In Nigeria, it can hardly happen the other way round except you find yourself in organisations that make use of DB Tools and u're fortunate to be allowed near the database at all.

I think the best thing to do is to be armed with a lot of skills especially in the area of program development and try to start doing stuffs on your own. That is what i'm trying to do now.

I agree, Totally!!!

AND STAY OUT!!!!

do u want me to give u a short list of those who finished from NITT and still looking for their bearings even with their certificates? have u asked why your NIIT faculties(like they are called) decide to teach at NITT for a salary of abt N40K a month if they can get the jobs u were deceived to believe u will get when u get out of NIIT.

I can see u are young in this! better plan how u will cope with the employment market when u get out and dont bring the crapy NIIT hope back on this thread!!

And u say mysql is crap??? U need to be tied to the stakes and shot; really! u dont know a thing about DB except from the cheap assignments u get to submit to your faculties that really dont know that much as well!

whats your name, segebee, dont come back here!!!

DBAs,

you can register your presence at www.webmastersofafrica.com .  You never know who might be there looking for someone to do the job 

Hi Guys,

From reading your posts, I get a feeling that DB/SQL  jobs are very scarce in Naija! 

So what are all those banks doing?, those blue-chips companies? are they runing on excel? are they not innovative with new products? is the economy not growing? Soludo/OBJ says its growing,

what about SME?  is really so hopeless?  I would have imagine as developing society; there should be huge jobs for Apps and Prod DBs.

Cabali

This is shocking!! 

INEC alone should have generated at least 5 SQL/DB jobs in each local council for coming election!

What is really the state of IT in Nigeria?  is IT jobs in naija out-sourced or what?

IT jobs in nigeria are not out sourced; they are irrelevant as far as the government is concern. your nation's intelligence cannot grow past that of your leaders!

How many of of our leaders are educated? U cant tell Obasanjo to invest in IT, he wont see the need let alone understand the importance. so just get used to it!

we are still trying to be a developing nation, we have to wait for an educated president to hope for that!!!

We are not in for a long wait!!!

We are goin to leave the country!!!

nigeria is getting too backwards 4me and i don't see improvement. imagine majority of nigerians have to rely on cdma and gprs for internet. computer science students still learning basic instead of things like php and the rest. and what they don't understand is the fastest way to improve your economy and standard of living is through embracing and investing in technology

well what we need is fresh blood not old people. And thats looks quite impossible so the other option is private investors. And thats also almost looking impossible too

ok cabali you're bringing it on!

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you are lucky i was busy in school; that's why i didn't reply u immediately.

First, i dont blame you cos u probably are angry that you can't study at niit,
that's why poor stay poor; always beefing the rich, (not that im a rich guy)

Wherever did you get the idea that niit faculties are poor

one of my faculties told me that he was given a contract to convert the database of the nigerian navy;
but he turned it down for the price.

i asked him that maybe 100,000 was too much; he said "are u serious?"
THIS GUY WAS TALKING IN MILLIONS

even if they get paid 40,000 as u said; u've forgotten that they are consulted by companies and they don't work thruout the week.

to those of you cabali wants to fool; the it industry is the in-thing in nigeria

Forget about employment

So companies don't use oracle; look at the opportunity: IF I WAS TO DESIGN A DATABASE FOR A COMPANY; HOW MUCH WOULD I CHARGE;
YES! MILLIONS[DEPENDING ON SITE]

ONLY LAGOS STATE RUNS FULLY ON ORACLE ; EVEN OGUN STATE SAYS ITS UNDERSTAFFED COS ITS RUNNING ITS OWN IT PROJECT. LET'S SAY REALISTICALLY I DESIGN A DATABASE FOR 3 STATES HOW MUCH WOULD I BE PAID,

WHAT OF SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES,

AND I HAVEN'T EVEN TALKED OF MAINTAINING THE DATABASE WHICH IS WHERE MONEY IS!

[IF U WERE MANAGING ONLY ABUJA'S DATABASE, ] WE SHOULD BE CREATIVE!

SO I HOPE YOU STAY OUT CABALI AND LET SERIOUS PEOPLE TALK ABOUT DATABASES! (THOUGH I MUST SAY I WAS WRONG ABOUT MYSQL; AND THE NIIT THINGY ABOUT JOB PLACEMENT, BESIDES MYSQL IS ONLY GOOD FOR WEB; WONDER WHY YAHOO USES ORACLE, THEY'D CRASH WITH MYSQL


OH; IM HOPE I'VE REALLY TAUGHT CABALI A LESSON

NOW LETS TALK DATABASES;

To make your work easier when inserting into tales use;

insert into <tablename> values ('&value1','&value2',, '&value10') ;

THIS WILL ASK YOU TO ENTER THE VALUES FOR THE COLUMNS

NOTE THAT IT WILL ENTER INTO THE TABLE IN THE ORDER ABOVE

ALSO, VALUE1 ETC IS JUST AN EASY IDENTIFIER AND MAY NOT BE COLUMN NAME!

I HOPE I'VE TAUGHT SOMEONE SOMETHING!



NB: CABALI; IM BROWSING FROM NIIT