I’ve just been sent 5 free vouchers for the Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam! Here is an excerpt from the email…
“We are piloting this program with the Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam. … we have provided five (5) vouchers for free beta exams. You can use them for a giveaway on your blog if you like. Simply send the voucher number to the winner. They will enter this voucher in the appropriate field during exam registration at Pearson VUE. This beta exam is scheduled to end on October 19, 2013.”
I’m about to leave for OpenWorld 2013, so this is going to be brief. Here are the rules of the competition…
- The beta exam closes on the 19th October, so unless you think you can be ready to sit the exam by then, don’t bother entering. You’ll just be wasting a spot someone else could take.
- The voucher is only redeemable for the 1Z1-062 beta exam. You can’t use it for any other exam! You can’t wait and use it for the production exam! It’s just for this beta exam so you have to get your ass into gear!
- The competition will close on Saturday 28th September. I’ll announce the winners when I get back from OOW2013.
- You need to tell me why you need the free voucher in the comments below this blog post. Facebook and Google+ comments will not be included in the competition!
- Extra credit will be given for funny and/or rhyming entries. Even the slightest effort to rhyme will rocket you up the ratings, because it will make the judging more fun! You have a week, so try and be creative!
- I’ll be sending the voucher codes via email and confirming the email address and winning names with Oracle, so you must include a real email address and name when posting the comment.
- I may seek the help of friends and colleagues to help me judge the winners. I guess it depends on how many entries there are and how hard it is to judge. 🙂
- It’s late, I’m tired and I should be packing for OOW, so if I’ve forgotten anything, I reserve the right to modify this post a little, so keep an eye on it over the week…
Good luck!
Cheers
Tim…
- Certification Path: Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Associate
- Exam: Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062)
- Registration: Pearson VUE
- More Information: Beta Testing
I need to win this free voucher because i’m a brazilian DBA with 22 years old and i started with oracle11G and now i’m willing to take the certification for the 12C because its the future of our job, the amazing concept of the cloud and its use on databases, so i wish i could make this beta test and be certified in this new tecnology of Oracle!
Regards,
Kristy Noms
There was a DBA named Steve
Whose ego was too big to believe
His skills, to be blunt
Were grimy as bunt
But he sure could deceive to achieve.
No wait, that doesn’t explain why I need the voucher. Hmmm…
Oracle is red,
EMC is blue,
You have some free vouchers,
Give one to me.
Crap. I’m not good at this.
By shadows dark and stars alight
I’m going to San Francisco by night
What I’ll see there I have no clue
But I bet I can beat the vouchers out of you.
Better. Getting better.
I’m an OCM that’s well and true
And with that I do declare
That if I don’t start now on 12c
They’ll swear I’m just hot air.
Boooring.
Now swing your partner do-si-do
Let’s play a little tune
About a man with a killer plan
To seek a deal most opportune
The time was right the post was made
The voucher’s up for grabs
The poems sure sucked and would be chucked
But worth taking a couple stabs.
So here’s my plea I’ll say right now
I probably don’t stand a chance
But I’d be lying if I just quit trying
So I’m going to make my stance.
I need a voucher so I can take one test
Not two or three or four
I’ll just be blunt it’s what I want
And we have such a good rapport. Tim.
Yeehaw.
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Hola, toda mi vida he trabajado con bases de datos, he hecho algunos cursos de ORACLE y esta es la oportunidad que tengo para dar un paso mas allá en mi carrera
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This this is a story all about how
My life got flip turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you about Oracle Base and how I won a voucher there.
In Oracle 8i when it was all the craze
Learning commands was where I spent most of my days
Backing up, restoring, upgrading all cool
And all shooting off explain plans without a bunch of tools
When a couple of guys, they were up to big stuff
Made my simple work seem like it’s not enough
I started at one little job and said I gotta try
I said “I’m moving all my databases straight to Oracle 9i.”
Then came 10g and when catupgrd was done
The data had flashback and RAC was simple for once
If anything I could say this release was for me
But I thought “nah, forget it – yo homes, 11g!”
I started the DB but as soon as I did
I yelled to 11g “Yo homes, I’m ditching grid!”
Looked at 12c, it was released apace
Now I gotta get certified by rhyming for Oracle Base.
http://i.imgur.com/ApoqoSJ.gif
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Hi Tim,
Thanks for given us opportunity to win the beta exam voucher. Actually I’m oracle certified professional of Oracle 8…My company database running Oracle10g and soon we upgrade to 12c for some job requirement I have to attempt the 12c exam.
I sit here in the dark,
with no voucher, not even a spark
i just sat and cried
twitter friends will think i died
Now there’s no more fun
Steve Karam has won
As i sit in the dark and wait
I just wish i had more _weight_
To Tim Hall i cannot call
no 24hour emergencies at all
my voucher long gone
Oh, where did i go wrong?
How could this be,
with 12c how it would happen to me?
My life has been smashed
My instance has crashed!
Hello sir, how do you do?
I’m an Oracle expert,
Let me Tell you something
Ten years experience here.
Oracle is the one,
This is what i love this is what i do
Yes I’m an Guru,
don’t you see.
nobody can know databases,
better than me!
Steve and Luís needs one
count them it’s two
Add me to the list
it will become Three
10, 11, 12 to the ‘c’,
Osama Mustafa thinks he’s going to challenge me
Ready to make an entrance so back on up
(Cause you know I’m ’bout’ to rip it up)
Give me the microphone first so I can bust like a bubble
Osama and Alchemist together now you know you in trouble
It’s just a 12c thing baby
Two data rhyming homies so we’re crazy
DBA gigs are the work that pays me
Untrainable so please don’t try to train this.
But um back to the lecture at hand
The Alchemist is perfected so I’mma let ’em understand
From a DBA’s perspective
And before I’m doing the test I need to rhyme for the collective
You never know I could be taking that test
And staking that test and at the same time breaking that test
Now you know I ain’t doing that, Osama
Ain’t no test hard enough to mess me up when I’m in it (yeah)
And that’s realer than real deal VARCHAR fields
And now you readers and rhymers know how I feel
Well if it’s good enough to get vouchers off a blogging bloke
I’ll take one and deny all you other folk.
It’s like this and like that and like this and uh…
It’s like this and like that and like this and uh…
http://i.imgur.com/Wp3PAow.jpg
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I really need this voucher, This is only way to go on Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam. Thanks in advance!
i need to jump on oracle from sql server….
here may song from italy
The data are like money..
but the user are like monkey
they love only xls spredsheet
but only dba can load data from it
Every silly people can make a backup
only good dba will put the server up
good save the recycle bin
because keep delete data in
if you use oracle 12c every day
you go to the rigth way….
and if you feel hungry…
Keep calm and use oracle 12c
Another great entry! 🙂