Certs are really an "eye of the beholder" thing. Some people will swear by them, and others will consider them nothing more than a money making gimmick.

Recently my company interviewed a whole swag of candidates. About half had a cert of some sort, though the worse result on our standard test was an MCDBA: 2 out of 24.

At a previous company, a manager had told me that having a degree is useless skills-wise, it's only purpose is to open doors. Certs are perhaps the same.

For myself, I'll probably get one one day simply because every second person already has one, and if you get that interviewer who *requires* that piece of paper above all else....

S.