• Dave62 (9/6/2013)


    Steven.Howes (9/6/2013)


    8 out of 10? really? That's insane. I can't believe that many people would try to cheat and screw their employers by taking a job that they can't do. I couldn't imagine taking a job as a welder or plumber, I can't do it, why would I want that stress no matter how well it pays. That being said, I'm a well paid, happy IT Employee. If I was working at tim hortons or mcdonalds I might have a different opinion and might do anything to get out...

    Yes but the gamers are not just people from other industries who don't know anything about the product. I'm sure a large portion of the the 8 out of 10 are people who at least have a basic understanding of the product but want to substitute experience with a piece of paper. So they do a brain dump and assume they can learn what they need to on the job.

    Just my assumptions...

    I think there's also plenty of people that work in technology, maybe even with SQL Server, but they've accumulated 10, 20, 100 repeats of 1 week of knowledge. They do their job, which might be making a backup, running a job, minor stuff, but haven't really understood the product. They havne't had to and take the test to try and get a better job using the Cert as a shortcut.

    I was stunned a few years back at how many people that claim MCSE or other cert, but didn't know how @@identity and @@scope_identity differed. People that couldn't articulate what a clustered index is. To be fair, I didn't double check if they had the cert, and it's entirely possible there are people claiming it that don't have any cert.