Re: oracle training

Hi All,

I agree that the integrity, experience, and ability to teach materials are of the utmost importance to those trying to learn Oracle. As the original question was about The Database Domain and if anyone had heard anything about it, I would like to add the following:

To help clear things up a bit, The Database Domain provides online (Web-based) and CD-ROM training. The head of the development team there is Steve Bobrowski, who credentials include:

• Previously worked for Oracle Corp., where he assisted in the development of Oracle Server and Oracle's own documentation for Oracle7 and Oracle8 (in fact, he wrote over 2,000 pages of the Oracle7 doc).
• Has been a columnist for Oracle Magazine since 1993.
• Author of the award-winning book "Mastering Oracle7 & Client/Server Computing" (Sybex, 1994, 1996)
• Author of the book "Oracle8 Architecture" from Oracle Press.
• Has also written and edited magazine articles for several industry publications, including DBMS, OReview, SELECT Magazine, and Database Programming & Design.

In fact, Ken Jacobs, VP of Oracle's Server Technologies Division and Project Manager for Oracle8, says of Steve Bobrowski:

"Few people understand Oracle better than Steve does, and no one can do a better job of making the technology understandable to others."

Just thought I'd get a obviously biased :) but I believe fair word in here for The Database Domain and its development team.

Thanks for reading.
Kathleen

Jeremy Russell wrote:

> Hi, I'm an instructor working for an Oracle authorised education
> partner - please note that I am deliberately NOT including the company
> name here so as not to be accused of advertising. I'm an experienced
> RDBMS instructor (10 years + in the UK), including 6+ years of Oracle
> training. Despite my own experience, which includes 25 years in this
> industry as a developer, to work for Oracle partners I still had to
> attend each training course that I wanted to present, THEN teach the
> class under the gaze of a senior Oracle instructor. The supervising
> instructor completes a 4 or 5 page review form on my performance,
> covering everything from my technical knowledge to my demeanour
> (addressing students by name) and even my dress sense! Then and only
> if the grading is acceptable, I'm allowed to teach the class alone.
>
> In summary, Oracle take the quality of their partner instructors very
> very seriously.
>
> And having taught similar classes for many UK based organisations,
> including my own business in England, I am seriously impressed by the
> quality of the handouts and support material provided by Oracle.
>
> You could do a lot worse than take an Oracle authorised class.
>
> Good luck and have fun ...
>
> Jeremy Russell
> "Paul Dorsey" <pdorsey_at_dulcian.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >My advise is to solicit your trainer from conference proceedings, list
> >postings, etc. Get someone who really knows the subject, not some trainer
> >who has never built with the tool.
> >
> >Oracle Education is probably the best support for the above argument. Some
> >of the best people in the field teach classes for Oracle education.
> >Unfortunately, you can also take a class from a complete novice. In
> >fairness, I have heard that Oracle tries to not do that anymore.
> <snip>
Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 21:06:16 CET