Ryan Gaffuri wrote:
>customer_at_asgardfinancial.com (mark davis) wrote in message news:<e0366c3c.0311011823.219b47a2_at_posting.google.com>...
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>>rgaffuri_at_cox.net (Ryan Gaffuri) wrote in message news:<1efdad5b.0310060847.4987aab_at_posting.google.com>...
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>>>odba1961_at_aol.com (Odba1961) wrote in message news:<20031003121734.09867.00000186_at_mb-m25.aol.com>...
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>>>>I attend Chubb's DBA program. Chubb never told me I would be a junior DBA.That being said I have taken from Chubb a database system design course
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>>that was excellent. Last term I took the first course in the oracle
>>series-Oracle 9i Sql. This course was intense 5 people were in the
>>class 2 people passed.I gave up a lot of weekends to pass that course
>>with an A.The course involved a lot of hands on execises using the
>>books from Oracle University. I also had to do a case study which
>>involved taking a business problem and mapping it to an ERD then
>>creating the tables with the proper constraints and populating the
>>tables. I then had to write several sequel quries to make sure I had
>>created the table properly.The next thing was to produce a report from
>>SQL*Plus that had to mimic the print out requirements..I was taught by
>>an OCP9i professional who is in the business.
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>>I am taking Fundemental I and Fundementals II and Tuning. This
>>material is not easy and is being taught to us by a Oracle Certified
>>Master.My understanding is that there are not that many Masters in the
>>country. To sum this up Chubb is a good school to go to for Oracle
>>training,they don't hold your hand. You have to work at it. I have a
>>degree in CIS(learn much more at chubb technology wise),limited
>>technical experience and hoping this will help. So far Chubb has not
>>disappointed me. It hard for me to believe that some other school
>>would be better. We use Oracle University books and and a lot of
>>hands-on in class. The class is small (4 people) and very personable.
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>another thing to point out. Its hard to believe how cheap your courses
>are. $650 for 10 weeks? Most private companies charge $2000-3000 for
>lousy entry level courses. Oracle charges $500/day(and their stuff is
>not always that good).
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>find someone to teach it out in northern virginia and Ill take it.
>Dont think you will get any takers. The schools out here charge
>several times that for their entry level stuff.
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Only place I might be able to swing it would be at UVA in
Charlottesville. I get in there several
times a year. Is that close enough?
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Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp
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Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 12:54:27 CST
