Re: Oracle 9i New Features or Data Guard Course

"Martyn" <martynbaker_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8bccbf05.0310100603.72730768_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> I am wanting feedback from anyone that has attended one or both of
> these courses as to which they thought I would benefit from most. At
> the moment I am leaning towards New Features course but am open to
> persuasion.
> I work for an organisation that has a very limited training budget and
> am trying to decide which course I should attend.
>
> We have many applications from many vendors (we do not do any in-house
> development at all), so we are vendor driven wrt Oracle version and
> all are currently at 8.x. One production application is to be migrated
> from 8.1.7.0 to 9.2.0.1 in Feb 2004 and this date is set in stone.
> Part of the SLA for this app. requires that we maintain a standby
> database (for legal purposes) and I am aware that the standby
> mechanism on 9i is vastly different to 8i. Currently we have in-house
> scripts to maintain the standby database.
>
> Any feedback would be grateful as unfortunately I can only attend one
> course.
>

Hi Martyn,

IMHO, attend the New features course, no doubt. It covers most of the main goodies associated with 9i so you should leave with a pretty good understanding of what 9i has to offer. It also includes a chapter on DataGuard that although doesn't go into the same detail as the DataGuard course does give you enough to go on.

If I were still teaching and considering the course is really kinda 4 day course stretched into 5, I would pickup the fact you have a real interest in DG and go into in more detail to fill in the time. It's "requests" such as yours that makes it a 5 day course so ask your instructor (tell them Richard says you can do it ;) and get the best of both worlds.

We use DG at my current site in a big way and it's not *that* complicated a feature.

My thoughts

Richard Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 09:31:32 CDT