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Hi All,
Oracle Education most certainly *IS* training. A few points.
My thoughts :)
Richard
"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
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> > I agree and would add that ... part of the reason people perceive Oracle
> as hard,
> > and/or expensive, to manage is that in truth they never received decent
> training. An
> > OCP class is not training. Oracle Education is truly not training.
>
> I disagree Oracle education is training (/pedant though it may not be
> education /pedant). The trouble is education only gets you so far. As
Connor
> said to me in an entirely different post "experience is what you get when
> you were expecting something else". training doesn't substitute for
> experience - it merely prompts it. IMO anyway.
>
> I wan't to be clear though I learned a lot from oracle training. It was
> worth the money. Actually let me say that again with emphasis ORACLE
> TRAINING IS WORTH THE CASH. The problem is that folk think you can do 3
> weeks worth of classes and end up with Jonathon/Nuno/Sybrand/Connor's
level
> of expertise. You can't. It does on the whole though prevent you from
> commiting planned stupidity;this is A Good Thing (tm) The problem is not
> the training its the expectations. We can argue over who is responsible
for
> these. I won't be budged on oracle education being value for money though.
>
> > And for those of us earning in six figures
> Please don't do this to me you know it hurts <g>.
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Mon Jul 29 2002 - 20:07:14 CDT