It was nice meeting with you with the free seminar conducted at SMU. Learned a lot from it.

Well recommended!!

Regards,
Onin

Really Impressed with your blog and your technical article High Lights. I am out of words to express / speech less. Really, god had done unfair for us, that you are born and living in U.K. You are Real master of ORACLE. I can only request one thing in front of you, Is it possible to Plan “Advance Trouble Shooting Seminar” in INDIA, this year. I will be really happy for that.

Thanking you in Advance.

Just wanted to check since it’s close to the end of December if you have an firm seminar dates yet? Looking forward to getting in as soon as possible!

Just a quick note to let you and your blog readers know that your seminar in Brussels the last couple of days was great !

I can honestly say I’ve learned a lot. Not just new factual things, but you’ve showed new ways to approach problems where the beaten path falls short.

The techniques you’ve showed are truly impressive, and I’m sure they’ll prove their worth next time Oracle throws something nasty my way :-)

(well, after I’ve been able to process all of the information from your seminar, that is) :-)

The way you structure these techniques into a repeatable systematic troubleshooting approach simply rocks !!

I can truthfully recommend this seminar to any DBA willing to think out of the box.

Thanks again,

Thierry Brouwers
DB Minded

Awesome! I’m especially glad to hear feedback about the use of this knowledge for troubleshooting real life problems!

I’m glad that it was helpful! Thanks!

Went to the London seminar on Monday/Tuesday. Excellent. Can only say I wished it was 3 days!

Got a chance to apply my knowledge immediately the very next day at work. As I walked in there was a problem with a hung production database being investigated by other DBAs. The other DBAs couldn’t sqlplus in as normal, I tried the -prelim option and did a dump hanganalyze. The leaf process was the RVWR (recovery writer). The tracefile showed the pattern of waiting sessions as demonstrated on the course. The resulting problem – lack of recove dest space – is actually reported in the alert log and quite easy to spot (or should be!!), but I wanted to adopt the new approach as learnt…! ;-) As it turns out, someone had left a guarenteed restore point in the recovery file dest and once that was removed, the hang stopped… :-D

Since then been using some of your TPT scripts. Hacked a bit as they’re written for Windows, so the host commands swapped for unix ones…

Great set of scripts though and once again a great seminar. Very enjoyable and interesting!

Thanks,

Simon