I have been through numerous Microosft certifications over the years. It seems that Microsoft has this gigantic urge to revamp things all the time. There is value in stability. "MCSE" means something to a lot of people. Now that Microsoft has apparently realized this (and thus the mistake of creating MCITP), they have now created an identical acronym "MCSE" that means something different and just adds even more confusion. This all cheapens the value of these certifications. If hiring people do not understand these certs, how can they be expected to properly evaluate someone who has them???

In addition to more renaming, the certification effort for SQL 2012 is much more significant. At some point, people will just skip them. This also adds to the deteriorization of the perceived value. A straightforward upgrade from the 2008 certification organization/structure would have made far more sense and it would have been far more realistic as well as obtainable for typical database systems people.