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For all of my certifications I usually got 2 different training books on the subject. This is because most of the time one is not enough to get the job done. A lot of the books are light on one part or another that other books cover better.
Steve Maier (too many certs to list  )
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I don't think you have to worry about experience so much for the certification. I've interviewed folks who haven't had any professional programming experience that have taken a boot camp or a course and passed the MS certification exams.
One my colleague recently finished: http://www.trainingcamp.com/usa/[^].
Good luck on it. They are tough exams 
Wes
http://www.21concepts.com[^]
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Wes S wrote: I don't think you have to worry about experience so much for the certification. I've interviewed folks who haven't had any professional programming experience that have taken a boot camp or a course and passed the MS certification exams.
Which is exactly why they have lost a lot of their importance. I would say at least half of the people that hold MS certs shouldn't really have them as they did nothing more than study books for months, go to boot camps, or "brain dump" sites/training. All of this is done to collect initials to put after their name in an effort to make themselves look better and/or demand a higher pay than what is deserved.
If I interview someone that says they have MS credentials I tend to grill them harder on those areas. The more certs someone has, the less likely they are to have any real world experience.
And yes, that is a generalization. I know several people that have multiple certs that do honestly deserve them and do actively work in those areas, and really know there stuff; but that is becoming an ever increasing minority. And yes, I do have an MS cert, which took me 14 years of real experience to finally decide to go after it, passing all 3 exams on the first try without studying. The cert should be about what you know from everyday experience and use, not how much you can cram in order to pass.
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Hi all, I got headhunted by google, went through the 2nd round of interviews and they later informed me I wasn't a fit according to their requirements but told me to apply for other positions. To be honest I felt the interviewer didn't pay much attention to what I had to say, he rang me 15 mins late and then explained his father was in hospital. Nearing the end of the interview he put me on hold for a minute because the hospital rang and said he had to go. All in all he asked me less than 5 questions, I didn't think that was a fair judgement. He couldn't postpone the interview either, at least that's what he said. Why are interviews like the lottery?? I spent days preparing for the interview only to be interviewed by someone who didn't really seem to care.
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Write to google and complain.
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minimice wrote: All in all he asked me less than 5 questions, I didn't think that was a fair judgement. He couldn't postpone the interview either, at least that's what he said.
Bad. For his personal greed or need, the interviewer has cheated a good candidate and betrayed his organization. 
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minimice wrote: I spent days preparing for the interview only to be interviewed by someone who didn't really seem to care.
Happens all the time. Sometimes they don't even phone you. They're tied up in a meeting or something.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: Sometimes they don't even phone you
Very bad. And you keep your phone free all the time waiting for thier time. Time of both the parties are precious right?
Kevin McFarlane wrote: They're tied up in a meeting or something.
That reflects thier bad scheduling practices. In case there is an unforeseen and sudden meeting, it is at least a courtesy that they should ring you up or inform that the call is being rescheduled for a later date and time. Isn't it?
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: That reflects thier bad scheduling practices. In case there is an unforeseen and sudden meeting, it is at least a courtesy that they should ring you up or inform that the call is being rescheduled for a later date and time. Isn't it?
Well what I can't understand is why they couldn't postpone or get someone else whose father was not in hospital to interview me. It was extremely disappointing! And a waste of time as well!!
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cheer up, hang in there and good things will come your way.
here is one explanation.... i am sure he's done tons of interviews and from his experience you were not a fit after the 1st few questions possibly, and he could not follow up with more question based on what you were answering and what he was expecting, so he cut it short and was rude.
or you just had dumb luck!!!
why didn't you take it upon yourself to reschedule the interview when you found out about his father being in the hospital and him having to leave?
Yours Truly, The One and Only!
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Nice reply Every one need to Follow these Tips to prove them-selfs in panel
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How do Applications generate values for the primary keys in database tables? I know that setting the type as AutoNumber (setting Identity Specification to 'Yes' as in MS-SQL Server) will generate incremented values each time rows are inserted. Keeping in mind that deleted rows' values will never be reused the values will soon become too large for a .NET variable like 'long' to hold it after several updations. I guess this may result in exceptions. And the application to go wrong in future. How is it handled in an application like Yahoo or just this forum 'CodeProject' where the posts come in large numbers (each post requiring a unique ID) daily. Thank you.
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tonymathewt wrote: the values will soon become too large for a .NET variable like 'long' to hold it after several updations.
Just how many records do you think you're going to put into a table?? You do realize that the Long type in VB.NET is a 64-bit signed value and has a max value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807?? That's 9.2 million trillion id's...
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But Dave, in case of yahoo mail/orkut all the mails/scraps will be stored in a single table(not sure). Then it would have long crossed this number even if we delete the mails the auto number wont go back, it will only keep incrementing.
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tonymathewt wrote: in case of yahoo mail/orkut all the mails/scraps will be stored in a single table(not sure).
Maybe. Even so, I'd be willing to bet they haven't handled that many emails, nor do they store them away like this. Remember, I said over 9,000,000,000,000,000,000 ID's. I'd be surprised if the Internet has carried that many emails in the last 10 years combined.
tonymathewt wrote: Then it would have long crossed this number even if we delete the mails the auto number wont go back, it will only keep incrementing.
Yep. Then it just rolls over and starts back at 0 again. The other option is a composite key, where two or more columns cooperate the generate a unqiue key, like userId and an incremented value.
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What would be the minimal size of a database that has the maximal number of records with just the id in it?
Are there enough hard disks around on earth?
(I'm to tired to calc it out  )
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no risk no funk
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Urs, let the database grow to any size but will the application be able to handle the key(probably autonumber) that has grown to an enormous size?
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I was just joking a bit.
I think there are only very few applications that have to deal with numbers of records that come close to the maximum number of possible keys.
A simple solution can then be that you create a composite primary key consisting of to columns of type long. Imaging the number of possible keys now.
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no risk no funk
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 Thank you Urs
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: 9,000,000,000,000,000,000
I wonder about the storage and the data type for this number.
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A 64-bit number goes a long way...
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Hi..
I have the MCP certificate in developing asp.net using visual C#.In my university I studied the Java as an object oriented language only(without learning how to make business project that could be needed by a company).I have a desire to learn USB port programming and mobile programming.
May you learn me how to find trusted training centers for each of the fields I mentioned above so I can reach the second level in these fields.
I am too late but i will never give up
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I don't think training centers are good, at least with respect to Chennai, India. Self-learning kits and practice alone is good.
I came across one training center who is offering AJAX, PHP as training courses. Some center like Intelliblitz in Madipakkam, Chennai does that.
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