Re: Free Copy of Oracle

Golan,

I can't speak for the most resent offering but when I did my Oracle 7 DBA certification, I purchase the Oracle/NETG cd set directly from Oracle. It was probably the worst pile of junk I have ever seen! It was full of errors and was limited to responding in only one way. You were not free to enter a statement on multiple lines and when you did start putting all the code on one line they would mark as incorrect because, for that question they wanted it on different lines!.... Somewhere between 5 and 10% of the syntax used in the "course" was incorrect!. Using a mock-up of their tables and questions on a test system proved there examples incorrect!

I wrote several letters and called both Oracle and NETG and the only response received was a single phone call saying they were looking into it.

The licensing of the product was on a one for one basis. If you have one cd you have one license for one person to use the product. It make for the most expensive (over 21k cdn) stack of coffee coasters I have ever used!

I hope that the "latest" versions have been corrected, but I for one, would never suggest to learn this way. I have been on the Oracle classroom course and have found them to be quite good. The problem with the Oracle courses as they are currently set up is that they run for either 4 or 5 consecutive days and other courses (at least here) are spaced so far apart that by the time you get to the next course, you have forgotten most of the items taught in the prior course. Of course, if you use all the material covered in each course regularly while waiting for the next course then you'll be OK. It's hard to keep up with self study when you are inundated with your daily duties.

My recommendation: do some of the classroom courses and augment with a home system. Try to set up a "real to life" senario to work with to home the skills. Buy some the excellent books available and apply what you read. Get a database working then break it and try to fix it. If you can, try to work with multiple Operating Systems. One final note, either buy the documentation set or get a really fast duplex printer ind print out the manuals and readme files from CD. They are probably the most valuable resources you can find.

HTH. Brian.

<golan1506_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:87ehoi$2q8$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Sorry, I lied. I just had to get your attention as no-one seemed to
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> Has anyone got any information on Oracle's Computer Based Training?
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> What is it like? Is it worth the hefty price tag? How does it implement
> its licensing? Do we have to get it from Oracle?
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> Any advice at all will be greatly appriciated.
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Received on Mon Feb 07 2000 - 08:08:51 CST