Technology is moving fast and trainings are a key in keeping up with the trends. You might be a dinosaur in your field, but you’ll perish if you would not adapt with the changes. Mostly people would say that training classes are somehow dull and tiresome. How about if the training classes are done in Mediterranean cruises? This is bit surprising for some, but I have known Burleson Consulting offers Oracle training classes on cruise ships. This is a mix of learning and fun.

Early reservations are now accepted for the Oracle RAC Training Cruise 2009.

The schedule will be as follows:
March 14, 2009: 1st day of class in Ft. Lauderdale
March 15, 2009: Cruise sets sail from Ft. Lauderdale
March 15 - 21, 2009: Cruise the Western Caribbean

The training class is designed for the DBA’s and IT managers and will be participated by practicing Oracle consultants, real Oracle experts and authors. I understand that it’s quite difficult to have experts do training class as they are busy with mission critical database work, but in here they impart knowledge as well as enjoy the cruise. This is a rare opportunity to learn the secrets of Oracle from some of the world’s most highly regarded Oracle experts.

Some of the topics of the Oracle RAC Training Cruise 2009:

RAC internals - (6 hours) Real Application Clusters is the foundation of Oracle high-availability databases, a technology that is indispensable for many mission-critical systems.

• Overview of RAC internals
• RAC configuration secrets
• Inside cache fusion
• RAC resource internals
• instance locking and serialization internals
• RAC Monitoring & troubleshooting

Oracle Tuning Tips - (6 hours) Learn how to tune your system from the top down, locating bottlenecks at the server, disk and instance level. Also see expert tricks for SQL tuning with hints, optimizer parameters, CBO statistics and histograms.

• Overview of Oracle Tuning
• Inside the cost-based optimizer
• Instance-level tuning
• Tuning the server, disk and network for Oracle
• Time-series tuning & troubleshooting
• Tuning with hints and optimizer statistics and histograms

Replication secrets - (6 hours) An executive overview of the relative advantages of Oracle Streams, Oracle multi-master replication and Oracle DBA for instance replication. Learn how to choose the right type of replication and learn the internal machinations of all Oracle replication mechanisms.

• Introduction to Oracle replication
• Oracle Streams Internals
• Oracle multi-master replication internals
• Oracle Data Guard replication internals
• Inside Oracle advanced queuing
• Replication conflict resolution

source: http://www.dba-oracle.com/BC_cruise.htm#Class%20Details

The full 6-day Oracle DBA class onboard a ship is really something of a treat. This is an opportunity to combine learning and vacation. Burleson Consulting have a way of making things easy for those who have been working hard in Oracle field. I still look forward to enjoy these Oracle training cruises.