Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Richard Foote" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <8bccbf05.0310100603.72730768@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Oracle 9i New Features or Data Guard Course Lines: 45 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2727.1300 Message-ID: <8pzhb.145207$bo1.5668@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:31:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.54.191.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1065796292 203.54.191.150 (Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:31:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:31:32 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:245013 "Martyn" wrote in message news:8bccbf05.0310100603.72730768@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