Oracle-L: RE: What is truth?

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:38:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0044C87E.20020423063837@fatcity.com>

I often wonder how instructors for Oracle have time to administer databases, to gain real-world experience.

I know I would have an awfully hard time teaching the OCP track and being a DBA at the same time...

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Patrice Boivin
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Sent:	Monday, April 22, 2002 9:48 PM
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Subject:	RE: What is truth?

I just took 5 months of classes (oracle dba). The entire focus of the classes was to get the students to pass the exams -- we were told that everyone forgets it all afterwards since anyway who can memorize it all? Use the reference materials on the job like real people. (Hey, I've been programming for years, and I still look stuff up when I need to. I didn't memorize every single syntax around.) But the exams ask all kinds of ridiculous "memory" questions. So the classes were geared towards that. However, the teachers were always happy to answer any questions, whether on the exams or not.

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