Is the only 1Z0-051 SQL Fundamentals I certification useful/recognised in the international labour market?

Hi,
I've been studying for passing the 1Z0-051 "SQL Fundamentals I" exam before taking the 1Z0-144 "Program with PL/SQL" exam and so I wonder if the only (for the moment) "SQL Fundamentals I" certification may be considerated useful/recognised in the international labour market or if it's "only" an intermediate certification for taking the "Program with PL/SQL" exam.
I ask for that 'cause I wonder if once I'll have taken the "SQL Fundamentals I" certification, this might be added in my curriculum or if it's just an intermediate certification
Thanks!

Hemant K Chitale wrote:
...The SQL exam 051 or 061 by itself doesn't have value. But the SQL Expert exam 047 is a standalone certification exam.
I really don't like the statement that the SQL Fundamentals exams have no value.  Passing the exams will not earn a certificate.  That is not the same thing as having no value.  I am in the final stages of hiring an assistant to act as a backup for me.  For several reasons the company decided to hire a recent college graduate with minimal (read almost zip) Oracle knowledge.  I plan to assign them a set of reading material to study and certification exams to prepare for.  I wrote an article detailing the specific steps on Certification Magazine here:
How to train your assistant: Certification makes the minion - CertMag
The very first test I will have them work towards is 1Z0-051. If that test 'had no value', why would I bother doing this? The SQL Expert Exam (1Z0-047) earns a certification and so obviously is'the more valuable exam, right? Wrong (at least in my opinion). The SQL Fundamentals exam has a better coverage of the basic SQL elements that I need to be confident my assistant has learned.  After my backup has completed all of the certifications listed in the above article, I may well have him move on to some more advanced exams, including 1Z0-047, among others.  However, much of the SQL Expert exam content is on seldom-used elements of the language.  I don't think I have ever used the ROLLUP, CUBE, or GROUPING SETS operations for real-world work. Likewise I cannot recall having a need for multitable INSERTs. I have never had a need to set a column to UNUSED.  I think I've used regular expressions less than five times in twenty years.  I use CONNECT BY PRIOR more than that, but still seldom enough that I often Google the syntax when I need to write a hierarchical query.
In short -- why would I bother making them spend time studying aspects of SQL that they almost certainly won't use very often.  I need them to be knowledgeable about the SQL syntax that they will be using on a daily basis.  That's what the SQL Fundamentals exam contains and that is why that exam is more valuable for people just starting out with the Oracle database.

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