Re: Learning Tree Oracle courses.. opinions?

andreyNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net said...
> Has anybody taken Oracle Admin classes from Learning Tree?
> If not, have you heard anything about them?
> We'd like to train a Unix Admin to be a backup DBA, he knows SQL and
> has been working with databases for few years (as a user) and has been
> studying the Oracle Concepts guide.
>
> Here's the course link:
> http://www.learningtree.com/courses/491.htm
>
> I am not entirely sure they can teach much in 5 days, but we can't
> afford to lose a Unix Admin for a month of training.
>
> Also, have you heard anything about other course offerings they have?
> Their charge per course is like $2500, but if we buy a '4-course
> training passport' we might be able to send up to 4 people for various
> training for half the price.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> .......
> We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 on Solaris 2.7 boxes
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When I worked for the US federal government, we used to send people to Learning Tree in the Washington DC area instead of OracleEd ... primarily because it was cheaper (and you might know how the gov't likes the lowest bidder). I did not personally attend, but some of my coworkers did ... mostly the Forms developers. They thought it was "roughly equivalent" to OracleEd's training classes.

I can see how you could learn Forms in 5 days ... but to learn to be a DBA in 5 days would be pushing it. However, depending on how critical your requirements are, it might be long enuf to get their feet wet and to teach them where to look for the rest of the answers.

It would be far better to enroll in a longer-term training program ... but sometimes the working world doesn't work out that way. I'll stick my neck out and recommend Learning Tree ... with the caveat that what I know about them is only second-hand.

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/Karsten
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