How To Gain Hands-on Experience in-Information Technology
When it comes to the Information Technology Industry, getting more hands-on experience is one of your most important professional development activities.
In this post, I will explain how information technology workers including business analysts, computer programmers, database developers, data analysts, project managers, software testers and infrastructure / networking professionals can gain extensive, high visibility, career defining hands-on experience!
More Opportunities To Get Hands-on Experience
By far, the number one place to find hands-on project experience in the information technology industry is in web or software development projects!
How To Earn Significantly More Money, When Your Career Hits a Plateau!
Have you you reached a plateau in your career?
If you have, consider becoming a contractor.
As a contractor, you may earn significantly more money (20% to 50% more) and you will find more challenging work for your skill sets.
In this post, I will show how you to minimize the risks while maximizing the benefits of being a contractor so that you end up with significantly more money in your pocket!
How To Jumpstart A Stalled Career!
It has been said that to “keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the very definition of insanity.“
On the other hand, “if you want something you have never hard, you must do something you have never done!“
So, if your career is stagnating, step back and take an honest look at your work.
Is your work everything you had hoped for?
If the smell of fresh-brewed coffee is the biggest reward after you walk through the office door each day, it’s time to truly perk up your daily grind and reboot your career.
Is Learning Sql Online So Hard?
Learning new Information Technology (IT) skills is typically thought of as painful because the Study Textbooks used in the Information Technology (IT) industry are usually written by geeks for a geeky, hard-core, technical audience.
This is why one of the challenges facing professionals today is how to overcome the difficulty, complexity or high learning curves typically associated with learning new Information Technology (IT) skills.
Keeping in mind that Sql or Database skills are useful in any industry including financial, insurance, banking or information technology sectors, wouldn’t it be really helpful if learning Sql or databases was made easy?
Oracle Or Microsoft Access, Which Is Better For Me?
Are you matching your strengths to your opportunities or are you just being ideological … interested only in following your own ideas even when they won’t get you any results?
Here is a situation that illustrates the challenges of being ideological versus being results oriented. It is a situation that illustrates the challenges of learning an enterprise software like Oracle compared to a poor man’s database like Microsoft Access.
Are you wondering about who this situation involves? You are safe my friend because today, I will mainly be talking about me 
What Personality Types Are DBAs?
This post about the personality types of database administrators (DBAs) is in response to Sandra’s question.
Sandra, thank you for taking the time to tweet a number of my posts, I appreciate you
Personality types like the Jung Myers-Briggs Type are used to describe the psychological characteristics of an individual.
For example, the famous Myers-Briggs has 16 personality types grouped as: Extroversion vs. Introversion, Intuiting vs. Sensing, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving.
In this post, I will describe some of the personality types of database administrators (DBAs).
in demand database jobs
This post answers a question submitted to [Ask IT Career Coach], a Career Advice Column that offers practical answers, help or solutions for your most challenging career situations.
What Are The Entry Level Requirements For Database Professional Jobs?
A reader from Rockville, Maryland wants to become a database professional and is concerned about age-based preferences, discrimination, educational qualifications and entry level hiring requirements for database professional jobs!
What is your opinion regarding online it degrees? More specifically, Master’s degrees in database technology?
Database Administrator (DBA)'s Job Description
In this issue, I will be answering a question submitted by a reader on “The Roles, Responsibilities or Job Description of Database Administrators (DBAs)“.
You can Ask IT Career Coach your toughest or most pressing questions and I will answer it fully just as I am answering this reader’s question below!
If you enjoy reading this post, please be sure to … Share this Post with Friends
Here is the reader’s question::
About The Database Administrator’s (DBA) Job Description
I am a final year BE student interested in developing a career in DBA
database careers in demand
The 7 Top, In-Demand Database Careers
Database skills are foundational to jobs in the IT Industry.
By that, I mean whether you’re a business analyst, software tester, project manager, software developer or even a web designer, you’ll be using relational database and sql query writing skills at some time in your career.
Database or SQL skills are also important because they position you for multiple careers paths ranging from that of the database developer to the data mining professional.
Career Paths for Database Professionals
Here is a comprehensive list of database career paths and their respective roles, duties, responsibilities and skill sets.
Master Complex SQL Queries
Many database professionals have a hard time writing complex, complicated or advanced SQL queries for the following reasons.
In a healthcare database project that I consulted on, I had to write fairly complicated and efficient SQL queries for physicians at several practices because of their specialized reporting requirements.
The real problem was not the complexity of the physicians database but it’s poor suitability to the physicians reporting needs.
Based on experience gathered from consulting on several database or data analysis projects, I have observed that writing complex or complicated SQL queries, may prove challenging because of the following:
Microsoft Access Developer Career
The Microsoft Access Relational Database has been around for a while and it is used in many businesses, Information Technology (IT) Teams and organizations.
Microsoft Access is commonly used in building desktop software applications, data analysis programs and corporate databases where the number of records are as few as 2 billion records or the number of users who access the system at any one time are as few as ten concurrent users.
The ease with which Microsoft access database developers create functional relational databases, add data entry forms, build reports and distribute their database projects to multiple users creates a market for skilled Microsoft Access Relational Database developers.
Learn the Right Way!
Database careers are a mystery to those on the outside! This is partly because the work done by database professionals is not as visible as that done by professionals like business analysts or project managers.
So, in this series, I will discuss database or SQL careers by answering questions such as:
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What do database / SQL jobs involve?
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What is the database / SQL industry like?
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What are the career options for database or SQL professionals?
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What challenges do database or SQL professionals face?
Learn SQL Online - The Easy Way!
SQL, also known as the Structured Query Language is used to query, retrieve and extract data from relational databases or define and create relational database structures including tables, views etc.
SQL skills are in-demand partly because of it’s portability. A skilled SQL professional can work on a wide variety of relational database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, IBM’s DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft Access, Dbase, Foxpro.
What is the Demand for SQL Skills?
SQL skills are useful in a number of careers including database developers, report writers, business analysts, computer programmers, web developers, testers, data analysts, etc.
Ask IT Career Coach
If you are interested in learning more about SQL Skills or becoming a Database Professional, send inyour questions now and I will answer them for you … right away!
Your questions may be about how to get a database developer job or how to improve your SQL query writing skills or how to become a database developer.
Perhaps your question is about how to get back into the database career track after a period of unemployment or about how to learn the relevant database skills for your job or employer. Whatever they are, go ahead and send in your questions and I will answer them for you.
Learn Sql Online - The Easy Way!
SQL Boot Camp is the hands-on, beginner to advanced level guide to learning SQL online.
You are shown, instructed or coached on how to write best-practice SQL code in an instructor-led, convenient and interactive web-based SQL course.
You gain mastery of SQL query writing, database design or database development by practicing as you learn from sql instructors using multiple videos, quizzes and hands-on database projects.
Why Learn SQL Online?
Databases are everywhere and virtually every firm or organization has multiple databases.
In-Demand SQL Skills
Don’t miss out on TODAY’S opportunity to enroll in SQL BOOT CAMP at a 50% discount using the promotional code: SQLTRAIN because today is the Last Day!
Another SAVINGS PLAN available TODAY is the Job Search + Resumes + Interview Coaching at a 15% Discount.
With this plan you may add the SQL Boot Camp Training Plan to the Job Search + Resume + Interview Coaching Plan today and get an immediate savings of 15%.
Limited Time Offer … Don’t Miss Out
So, let me summarize the SQL Training Offers available to you today:
Top Paying Skills in High Demand
Database Developers are in-demand in the healthcare, telecommunications, financial, manufacturing industries or in firms where data needs to be stored, retrieved or maintained.
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Database developers work with data analysts while importing data from legacy systems into new database structures.
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Database developers work with report developers in designing and reporting on data and business trends.
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Database developers work with system architects or software developers in defining data storage, retrieval or archival systems for business software application needs.
Announcing Payment Plans
Our readers have been asking if they can get a payment plan on the Software Developer Boot Camp or the Business Analyst Boot Camp. I am happy to announce that the answer is yes.
In addition the new payment plans include a 50% discount if you sign up right away. This offer expires Midnight, February 2, 2009. So hurry to take advantage of the limited time discount. Click here for more information
E-Learning: AnyTime + AnyPlace + AnyWhere
You always want to make sure that the training programs your attend match your career interests and aspirations, right? … so pay close attention to what I am about to say next.
Effectiveness of Traditional Class Room Training
Late last year I was mentoring, coaching and training a software development team. One of the members of the team had paid more than $6,000 (Six Thousand USD) for a class-room based training & certification program.
To fund the training which required an upfront, full payment, he raided his savings account and took on additional debt.
How you value knowledge tells me a lot about who you are … because knowledge capital is the most important resource in any organization.
In the digital age, what makes one employee more valuable than the next employee is simply stated … the amount of knowledge, skill, expertise, training and learning they have managed to acquire and put to use.
Now, managers are not interested in employees that know it all … only in employees that constantly put their knowledge capital to work by solving corporate problems or challenges … those employees are the gold mines in any organization.
The technical skill most in demand or frequently asked for on business analyst job postings, computer programmer jobs, data analyst positions, report writer job openings or most software development job postings is relational database management skills including SQL programming, database design, database development and SQL querying skills.
Are you surprised or in doubt?
Take a look at the job postings for business analysts, computer programmers, data analysts or database developer jobs and you will see that the technical skills common to all software development professions include:
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Relational database design skills
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Relational database development skills
What is the fastest way to learn a technical, business skill or life skill?
Is any of these the fastest way to learn a skill?
1. Articles, tutorials or books?
2. Video or CD based courses?
3. Audio or MP3 based courses?
My Career Makeover Secret
If you have been following my blog, you probably know by now that I was educated as a chemical engineer.
However, I changed my career to information technology after I graduated and started work.
How To Learn SQL or Databases Online
The demand for SQL query writing or database skills is tied to the high demand for web, intranet and internet application development skills
Organizations invest in web projects because they need to automate their business operations as it grows in complexity, expands in size or becomes more profitable.
This post addresses the following questions:
- Why is SQL query writing skills needed?
- What do SQL query writers do?
- How can you become a SQL query writer?
- What makes SQL query writers different from other developers?
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