I registered for it online, at education.oracle.com
you have to search on seminars, not classes. It's difficult to find,
but it IS there
- Tom Pall <tpall_at_realtime.net> wrote:
> RE: Oracle Internals courseThat rumor's been going on for versions
> now. As has been Scott's desire to offer a two week internals
> course. Course participants would sign all sorts of non-disclosure
> forms then get a scaled down version of what's taught to Customer
> Support. Wait a minute! Customer Support takes these courses? Surely
> not all the Silver Support people I've called. A difficulty with a
> two week course is that the very DBAs most likely to benefit from the
> course are the ones least likely to be let free for two weeks.
>
> The internals course is slated to be yanked every time a new version
> of Oracle comes out. Why teach internals when there are no
> initialization parameters and the database maintains and tunes
> itself? There's been an economic downturn and Oracle DBAs have lost
> their jobs. But anybody know an Oracle DBA who lost his job because
> a later version doesn't require a DBA? Oracle on CDs 1,2 and 3, huh?
> I think if I dig enough I can find that old version of Oracle I had
> that came on a single diskette.
>
> Scott says the internals course is purposely hidden. You have to
> call Oracle directly and ask for it. A number of people registered
> for the course from the paper or online catalogs, showed up then
> complained that they weren't about to get anything out of the
> course..
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Wagner
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:23 PM
> Subject: RE: Oracle Internals course
>
>
> rumor has it that this course is not going to be offered/modified
> for the 9.2 release of Oracle. Can anyone confirm or deny it?
>
> Nick
>
> p.s. Had a close friend take this class, and they also came back
> extremely pleased with it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:wisernet100_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Oracle Internals course
>
>
>
> Scott is the "instructors's instructor"
>
> he learns the new features, then teaches them to the instructors so
>
> they can teach them to you
>
> I had the pleasure of taking those classes with Scott a few years
> ago
> as well. He's a great teacher.
>
> If he is ever presenting at any conference you go to, GO SEE HIM
>
> --- Tom Pall <tpall_at_realtime.net> wrote:
> > I took that very course with Scott a few years ago. Yup, Scott
> flies
> > through the Internals and Dump/Traces courses with lots of extra
> > material to
> > spare. It's really refreshing to hear him tell the class how the
>
> > developers
> > documented something then tell how it's actually built. He keeps
> a
> > database
> > running in his notebook to prove what he says. Scott's one great
>
> > teacher.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>
> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:53 PM
> >
> >
> > I just wanted to say...
> >
> > If you have a chance to take the Oracle Internals course with
> Scott
> > Gossett
> > at Oracle, I highly recommend it.
> >
> > I wish I knew half of what he knows!
> >
> > The course isn't included in the OCP tracks, I think it should be
>
> > given a
> > higher profile though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
> >
> > Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
> > Technology Services | Services technologiques
> > Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique
> > Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
> >
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> >
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