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Rich,
The best Oracle training I've ever had by far is "playing around" with a small test DB on a laptop or PC. Stress it, hurt it, recover it, tune it, etc., etc. When done in conjunction with one of the fine books mentioned by others on this list - even better.
I've only had one official Oracle training course - in the spring of 1989. It was 4-1/2 days of RDBMS v5, SQL*Forms and RPT/RPF. Since then I've attended some of the "mini" courses at IOUG, ODTUG, Open World, etc. - nice little "hits" of the latest technologies. I "studied" for my Oracle8 OCP exams by working through Jason Couchman's book and beating up an 8.0.5 DB on my PC - learned a hell of a lot.
My on-going study plan for Oracle skills boils down to "Beating, Browsing and Books".
I think I've learned about as much as if I'd sat in a bunch of classes - and saved a pile of money. ;-)
Jack
-----Original Message-----
Sent: 07 February 2002 21:07
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
So, there I am. I've taken the main Oracle courses -- Intro to SQL, DBA
(Oracle 7!), Backup & Recovery, Network Admin, and Perf Tuning. Now where
do I go for more Oracle training?
This is sparked by a recent perceived lag in one of our new databases. We've tracked it down to a possible hot block or two, but I never used X$BH or V$LATCH_CHILDREN in any of my Oracle classes. And I *know* I'm far from being ready for an Internals class. So how do I get from here to there?
education.oracle.com doesn't seem to have a whole lot other than Internals. Or is that where I'm at now?
Confused and no beer.
Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA
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