InternetDB Career Opportunities? Please share your knowledge and wisdom.

1. What kinds of jobs or career opportunities are available to someone who knows professional internet databasing?

2. Are these skills crucial, or even important, when it comes to professional webdesign?

To those who reply, thank you for your input and help!

1.  What kinds of jobs or career opportunities are available to someone who knows professional internet databasing?

2.  Are these skills crucial, or even important, when it comes to professional webdesign?

 

To those who reply, thank you for your input and help!

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list follows..

1. online database administrator

2. database consultant

3. erp programmer -= inter branch version =-

etc...

the most crucial skill to gain is load balancing in part of the database queries and structures.. learn and experiment in order to gain the fastest or optimal way to structure your data.

database linking and restrictions is a must to be learn also those data sharing..

eg.. 2 people reading and writing the same exact data all at once..

problem, what will happen to user A's data if he saved first then followed by user B's save a second after the first save.

If you can learn oracle, try to learn it, there are alot of potential problems that have fixes on the oracle now like data integrety check, data bindings things that are now slowly being added to mySQL.

also if you tend to go near the programming side, learn client/server database connection.

by the way, online databasing are not limited to browsers and webpages, as of now we are developing and currently running a full java/mySQL software that connects from phillipines to singapore and to japan adn thailand offices. there is no webpage involved just pure java.

the only thing that have limit is our imagination

1.  What kinds of jobs or career opportunities are available to someone who knows professional internet databasing?

2.  Are these skills crucial, or even important, when it comes to professional webdesign?

 

To those who reply, thank you for your input and help!

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This post is somewhat dated so I don't know how helpful I can be at this later date, but my first response to your questions is that you have a lot to learn about the internet and databases in general. I mean no disrespect and hope you take my reply as constructive, but you need to come a long way in your knowledge before you start looking at career opportunities. However, having been in this business for about 10 years now I will attempt to answer your questions.

First, there are a lot of career opportunities for people who are competent database developers for interent content. Follow these links to see the job postings for database professionals. Go to http://www.monster.com/jobs/search/ and on the page pick the state where you are interested in finding a job and then choose the job category "Internet/E-Commerce". You can enter keywords above the location box to narrow the search to database positions. You can also go to http://www.computerjobs.com/de/en/IT-Jobs/ and do the same thing. Monster tends to have more job listings.

Now, assuming I am right about your knowledge level, find a book called PHP and MySQL Web Development and you will get a good overview of how important it is to know how to use databases with web page development. Since PHP and MySQL are open source tools you can use them to develop professional web pages without the large cost of settting up and using other tools. In answer to your second question, you cannot produce professional web page design without interaction with a database. Even if you have someone else do the database side you still have to know how to intereact with that database on the web development side. The book I mentioned will help you immensely in understanding that relationship between web pages and databases. If you would rather not buy the book, use this link ... http://www.weberforums.com/ ... to find similar information on the internet.

I wish you the best and would be willing to assist you in any way I can.

Rodney Lay