Re: Oracle 9i New Features for administrators 1Z0-030

You might very well think that Stephen, but I couldn't possibly comment.

It's horses for courses. Some people need the interaction they get with an Instructor before they learn anything. Others can just suck it all up from a book. The content's there; it's what you make of it, I guess.

;-)
HJR

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"Stephen B" <stephen.bell_at_cgi.ca> wrote in message
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> I can relate Howard,

>

> If you don't follow the book or skip a couple of slides the stress-o-metre

> of the audience begins to rise....not always (in my experience), but

> very often...I've been through your 9i upgrade notes and I'm very

> impressed...are you saying (without putting you on the spot!) that you

think


> they'd

> be enough to give someone a fighting chance on the 9i upgrade exam? (I

> promise..I won't hold you to it!) ..I'm thinking of writing it to stay

> current

> but I'd like to avoid flipping through a tome that weighs as much as I...

>

>

> "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message

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> > Never had to drop a chapter yet, and yes... I refuse to look at the book

> > until the *end* of each chapter.

> >

> > I once tried not to look at the book at all... at which point students

> > started to complain that I wasn't covering the material (even though I

> was).

> > Seems that unless they get to flick through each and every page, they

> > somehow feel they're being cheated.  You just can't win.

> >

> > The 8i upgrade was a bit of a disaster, frankly.  Far too many chapters.

> > What they did was to re-write it so that it assumed you already knew 8.0

> > (the original version covered 7 to 8i as well as 8 to 8i).  So comments

> that

> > you make at the end of a course (I presume you filled in the assessment

> > sheet) are actually taken very seriously, and where appropriate

> > recitification can be undertaken, it very often is.

> >

> > Fortunately, the 9i course doesn't have any such problems.  I still

wonder


> > what they were thinking of, putting Advanced Replication in it, but

there


> > you go.

> >

> > Regards

> > HJR

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> > "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message

> > news:463l8ug61vu374m9rjhk5ath4fk5f1t8va_at_4ax.com...

> > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:56:45 +1100, "Howard J. Rogers"

> > > <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote:

> > >

> > > >But that's no excuse for not coming on the official training course!!

> > > >

> > > >;-)

> > > >HJR

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> > > Is that yet another Oracle course where the only thing that happens is

> > > that the instructor reads all the sheets aloud? Many instructors in

> > > the Netherlands just *hate* to do that, because our methods of

> > > educating people are different. If they however explain something in

> > > more detail, they invariably end up with dropping chapters.

> > > Maybe someone has actually checked the sheets can be read in 4 days,

> > > lol (I'm referring to the Oracle 8i upgrade course now)

> > >

> > > Regards

> > >

> > >

> > > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

> > >

> > > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address

> >

> >

>

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