{"id":1648,"date":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"mastering-oracle-trace-data-seminar-with-cary-millsap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/mastering-oracle-trace-data-seminar-with-cary-millsap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Oracle Trace Data seminar with Cary Millsap"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned before<\/a>, Cary Millsap<\/a> was over in Europe recently and included a short trip to London to deliver his 1-day Mastering Oracle Trace Data seminar. <\/p>\n

By the time I found out, it was a little late to organise an onsite at my current client’s place and in this business climate it’s difficult to get a number of people out of the office at the same time. However, Cary did me a favour and was good enough to come into the office post-lunch and give people a taster, which wowed people (he always does) and was much appreciated, based on the subsequent feedback. <\/p>\n

But I was determined that the newest member of our team, Sana Ahmed, and I would attend the full seminar the next day. Sana is the intern on the team. (Actually, that’s just a running joke. She used<\/em> to be an intern on our team but is now a fully paid-up graduate employee and a super-smart one at that!)<\/p>\n

So after a sleep-over at my place, Cary was fully rested for what turned out to be quite a long walk to the course venue! The worst bit was the final part of the trek, after we picked up the heaviest bag on the planet<\/em> containing the course notes and T-shirts!*<\/sup><\/p>\n

However, it was well worth it, because the course notes were one of the best aspects of the course. Rather than having a flat copy of his slides which would be shoved to the back of a shelf and remain untouched until the next house move (we’ve all been there surely?), he produced a lovely miniature book containing a detailed article about each section. (Apologies for the lousy photo but I’m sure you’ll get the idea. The production and typesetting are really first class …)<\/p>\n

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There are several benefits of this approach :-<\/p>\n

1) I know from personal experience on both sides of the Overhead Projector (man – remember them?!) that there’s a pretty severe limitation on just how much information you can absorb effectively in a day while just listening to someone. This way, you can go back and check after the course that you understood things correctly.<\/p>\n

2) It’s a book<\/em>, so you can read it on a train or a plane or in the bath and I, for one, find important information much easier to absorb from a paper copy.<\/p>\n

3) You can get a lot more information from the course than any human being could take you through verbally.<\/p>\n

Throw in Cary’s usual top-notch presentation style and a limited personal license for the tools used on the course <\/a>and it all seemed like a bit of a bargain to me. I know Sana had lots of fun! In fact, I’ll finish with a couple of quotes from my memory of the chat conversations at work …<\/p>\n

– “Your friend is really cool” 😉
– “I don’t understand how people can work on this stuff without understanding how it all really works.”<\/p>\n

She’ll go a long way! Here’s a class snap with me pulling a stupid face, as usual. Sigh<\/p>\n

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*<\/sup>Yep, that’s my position in the Oracle community finally sealed – Cary Millsap’s book-carrier! 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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By the time I found out, it was a little late to organise an onsite at my current client’s place and in this business climate it’s difficult to… Continue reading Mastering Oracle Trace Data seminar with Cary Millsap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1647,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/advert-cary-millsap-in-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":1648,"position":0},"title":"Advert: Cary Millsap in London","date":"August 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're interested in Oracle performance (or system performance in general) and you don't know who Cary Millsap is then I'm surprised. 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