{"id":780,"date":"2006-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2006-05-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:00:00","slug":"i-wish-i-could-go-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/i-wish-i-could-go-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish I could go to this"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have the money, the time and the chance to get to Denmark, then this training<\/a> looks pretty good. Okay, so I know the organisers and one of the ‘experts’ but, if the description is to be believed, I wish there were more courses like this available. A guy I work beside attended a supposed RMAN course earlier this year and it seemed to be a summary of the manuals and a brief and ineffective one. He came back still struggling severely with RMAN 🙁<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have the money, the time and the chance to get to Denmark, then this training looks pretty good. Okay, so I know the organisers and one of the ‘experts’ but, if the description is to be believed, I wish there were more courses like this available. A guy I work beside attended a… Continue reading I wish I could go to this<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1072,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/if-youre-gonna-screw-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":780,"position":0},"title":"If you’re gonna screw up …","date":"August 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"... you should always aim high (or desperately low would be more accurate). 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