How to be a successful Oracle Database Professional

I read this article in a blog from a very famous Oracle Guru, Tom Kyte (http://tkyte.blogspot.com)

I thought of sharing this with you all of what he thinks to become a successful Oracle Database Professional.


Ways to go to become a successful Oracle Database Professional

1. Be involved, participate. I cannot stress that one enough.

2. Understand. It is not good enough to think you know how something should work according to you. You have to understand how it actually does work. What you believe to be the way something is implemented could be far from the truth as to how it actually is implemented.

3.Ask why whenever you don't know why. We could just shorten that to "ask". If you don't ask, you'll never know. If you are answering questions and don't ask some yourself - you are doing it wrong.

4.Trust but Question Authority. If you see something written as a statement of fact without any supporting evidence either ignore it entirely or if you feel it could be beneficial to you if true develop a method to test the concept and see if it holds true.

5.If you want to be successful, you'll be communicating. Be precise in that communication. It really does make a difference. Clarity is necessary and preciseness is mandatory for clarity.

6.When you participate and start giving your own answers, your own input - do it right


I hope this sayings from Tom Kyte motivates you all.