06-01-2011
IT jobs/careers without formal qualifications.
I have a couple of job interviews for entry-level IT roles coming up in the next week, one as a 'Capacity Analyst' with an IT services provider, the other as a 'Technical Support Officer' in the public sector.
Other than training in standard "office applications" as part of a general business administration certificate, I do not have any formal training in IT, but have been studying extensively over the past 12 months from books at the library and have recently started including a "reading list" in my CV of books and exercises I have completed in the area of UNIX shell scripting, SQL (especially MySQL 5) and general networking concepts, as well as downloading Express Editions of vendors products like MS SQL Server and Oracle 10g, and completing vendor tutorials.
I would be interested to know how many members have established satisfying careers in IT support roles without formal qualifications.
Would those members in more senior IT roles be hesitant to work with someone who lacked formal training, or are references and demonstrated capabilities and enthusiasm more important?
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
alter_group
ALTER
GROUP(7) SQL Commands ALTER GROUP(7)
NAME
ALTER GROUP - change role name or membership
SYNOPSIS
ALTER GROUP groupname ADD USER username [, ... ]
ALTER GROUP groupname DROP USER username [, ... ]
ALTER GROUP groupname RENAME TO newname
DESCRIPTION
ALTER GROUP changes the attributes of a user group. This is an obsolete command, though still accepted for backwards compatibility,
because groups (and users too) have been superseded by the more general concept of roles.
The first two variants add users to a group or remove them from a group. (Any role can play the part of either a ``user'' or a ``group''
for this purpose.) These variants are effectively equivalent to granting or revoking membership in the role named as the ``group''; so the
preferred way to do this is to use GRANT [grant(7)] or REVOKE [revoke(7)].
The third variant changes the name of the group. This is exactly equivalent to renaming the role with ALTER ROLE [alter_role(7)].
PARAMETERS
groupname
The name of the group (role) to modify.
username
Users (roles) that are to be added to or removed from the group. The users must already exist; ALTER GROUP does not create or drop
users.
newname
The new name of the group.
EXAMPLES
Add users to a group:
ALTER GROUP staff ADD USER karl, john;
Remove a user from a group:
ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth;
COMPATIBILITY
There is no ALTER GROUP statement in the SQL standard.
SEE ALSO
GRANT [grant(7)], REVOKE [revoke(7)], ALTER ROLE [alter_role(7)]
SQL - Language Statements 2010-05-14 ALTER GROUP(7)