The reason - according to Jeff Spicer, the editor of Oracle Magazine - that I got an award was because of some stuff we've been doing here in Denmark together with Oracle Denmark. They include Specials and the DBA Nightschool.
We call them Specials, but they're nothing else than targeted, special days where a certain topic (usually narrow, eg Partitioning, MVs, etc.) are covered by guys who both know the stuff theoretically and from real work. Many moons ago Oracle's own Lex de Haan started up something called Technical Seminars whereby I and others would travel the world and teach specialised topics for a day or two. I just copied Lex' ideas from back then and teamed up with Oracle Denmark's Education Director Henrik Wegge. It doesn't take away business from the "normal" classes, since this is for experienced participants, and it's a good way of keeping in touch with the experienced folks out there.
The DBA Nightschool is something we did back in the Premium Services days in Oracle: DBAs will meet every Tuesday from 1700 to 2000 and go through a number of advanced topics and get to mix with other DBAs over the quick dinner or during the short breaks. We've taken it up again this year, and the topics include 8.1.7 New Features (there were certain things in 8.1.7 that were never covered in the 8i or 9i New Features classes because of timings), 10046, 10053, Throw-Away of rows, 10104, maybe some 10g stuff :).
It was the guys at the Danish Oracle User Group (OUGDK) board that set me up for this award thing, and I'm very grateful for that, by the way. I got the call from Jeff Spicer during dinner at the DBA Nightschool, so it was kind of cool.
I've always teased Cary with the fact that anything in America is award-winning these days. Well, suddenly I see it in a completely different light! Or maybe not.
Mogens
Tanel Poder wrote:
RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)
hmmm... award to Mogens maybe for writing 'You Don't Need RAC' paper
I think his next paper will 'You don't need Grid Computing' ... <g>
I certainly hope it won't be "You don't need Oracle" or something similar ;)
Tanel.
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