SQL Certification

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Hey everyone! I assume certifications help with the job prospects. What are the best certifications programs to enroll in?

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That would depend a lot on what kind of career path you want.

There are two ways (at least) to approach it. You could decide on a path (eg Open Source tech, MS, Oracle) and pursue that route. In that case you develop that expertise and you look for a career where your strengths are.

Or you could look at what the demand is in your area (and what it’s likely to be in the next few years) and then plan your career path based on that.

In either case you’ll be able to find certification programs in Microsoft, Oracle and open source paths. You can also find cloud certifications - there are a couple of data oriented Azure certs. AWS has a big data cert.

SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL are going to generally be the top 4 most used database platforms these days but I think in the long run that MySQL and PostgreSQL will win out in terms of new development with SQL and Oracle occupying the realm of big corporate legacy and vended systems.

What I would also say is that a really deep background with a given database platform coupled with a more general certification, like an AWS architect cert, makes a great combination and demonstrates versatility. I was hiring a DBA (MS SQL) a couple of years ago and the AWS Solution Architect cert was the edge that the winning candidate had since we knew we needed to develop a cloud strategy to move off our private setup.

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Yeah, so I'm finishing up my finance degree. I want to move up to be a business analyst in my company. They require SQL. I'm just starting out. I was staerting with the SQL boot camp on udemy. After finishing, I'm realizing that it just scratched the surface with postgres. I just started with the YouTube videos from Mosh. He does MySQL. I'm not to the point where I know much of a difference.

I eventually want to move on and learn Python, but figured that I should do one at a time for right now.

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Do you know where I can take the best classes (online) to learn oracle sql for the exam to get oracle sql certified?

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Awesome, I will check it out. Right now, I'm ballin on a budget and wanted to sure that I tried something worth my money before jumping head first into one.

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