{"id":377,"date":"2004-10-22T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=377"},"modified":"2004-10-22T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T20:03:05","slug":"mysql-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"MySQL certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of my staff are doing the MySQL certification. When I came up with the idea, I planned to do some training, but working 3 days a week doesn&#8217;t leave me much time to do anything besides sit in meetings anymore, so that hasn&#8217;t happened. But, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll all do well in the Core exam. 2 wrote today and I know that at least <a href=\"http:\/\/bug.reaper.org\/archives\/000049.html\">Aubrey has passed<\/a> &#8211; well done! I plan to do the test too, mainly because I&#8217;ve had quite a few offers to do training since writing my book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0782141625\/qid=1041629630\/sr=1-17\/ref=sr_1_17\/102-8250891-2480968?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Mastering MySQL 4<\/a>. Many students will want to certify, and I figure I should know what they&#8217;re up against. <\/p>\n<p>A good warmup for the MySQL certification is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainbench.com\">Brainbench MySQL test<\/a>. It&#8217;s for MySQL 3, but many of the basics are the same. I&#8217;d imagine it&#8217;s tougher than the Core exam (as it covers administration topics as well), but perhaps easier than the Professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of my staff are doing the MySQL certification. When I came up with the idea, I planned to do some training, but working 3 days a week doesn&#8217;t leave me much time to do anything besides sit in meetings anymore, so that hasn&#8217;t happened. But, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll all do well in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=377\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MySQL certification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}