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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Thinking of career change to software development Post 302552451 by frustrated1 on Saturday 3rd of September 2011 01:46:04 PM
Old 09-03-2011
Thinking of career change to software development

I'm currently administering applications and unix OS.
Have no IT degree, learned on the job over last 6-7 years.
Have good shell scripting skills, basic perl, know some apache, mysql, sql etc.
I enjoy scripting, setting up scripts to use in conjunction with databases and apache etc. I think this is the type of area I want to move to next.


Long term, I want to move to software development and I am looking on how I should approach this in the next 6-12 months.

I dont have massive amount of cash stored away to go to night college for an IT degree, I certainly dont want to waste money on a degree that wont be beneficial to me long term. Have some questions if anyone can give advice...

1. Is obtaining IT degree worth the large investment versus individual courses and experience?
I would have done many 5 day courses over the year in shell scripting, oracle, solaris, unix administration, linux along with many application specific courses and I have worked in a support team for over 6 years
Would working towards degree be better than looking for some more 5-10 day courses that focus on software development and accreditation from these courses ?

2. Any particular areas of software development that you would recommend?
ie. Perl, C++, web, html, php etc (maybe many others that I dont even know of)


Any advice at all is appreciated.
 

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COMP_ERR(1)						       MySQL Database System						       COMP_ERR(1)

NAME
comp_err - compile MySQL error message file SYNOPSIS
comp_err [options] DESCRIPTION
comp_err creates the errmsg.sys file that is used by mysqld to determine the error messages to display for different error codes. comp_err normally is run automatically when MySQL is built. It compiles the errmsg.sys file from the plaintext file located at sql/share/errmsg.txt in MySQL source distributions. comp_err also generates mysqld_error.h, mysqld_ername.h, and sql_state.h header files. For more information about how error messages are defined, see the MySQL Internals Manual[1]. Invoke comp_err like this: shell> comp_err [options] comp_err supports the following options. o --help, -? Display a help message and exit. o --charset=path, -C path The character set directory. The default is ../sql/share/charsets. o --debug=debug_options, -# debug_options Write a debugging log. A typical debug_options string is d:t:O,file_name. The default is d:t:O,/tmp/comp_err.trace. o --debug-info, -T Print some debugging information when the program exits. o --header_file=file_name, -H file_name The name of the error header file. The default is mysqld_error.h. o --in_file=file_name, -F file_name The name of the input file. The default is ../sql/share/errmsg.txt. o --name_file=file_name, -N file_name The name of the error name file. The default is mysqld_ername.h. o --out_dir=path, -D path The name of the output base directory. The default is ../sql/share/. o --out_file=file_name, -O file_name The name of the output file. The default is errmsg.sys. o --statefile=file_name, -S file_name The name for the SQLSTATE header file. The default is sql_state.h. o --version, -V Display version information and exit. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. NOTES
1. MySQL Internals Manual http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. AUTHOR
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/). MySQL 5.5 01/30/2014 COMP_ERR(1)
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