Do we have any dates for online trg (Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting v2.0 Part 1 & part 2) after 2nd dec. I am planning to take both , but need to get budget approved from my company for that. It would be great if we can have some dates for the same

This is the first time I am reading your blog and I should say, its great, very informative and that too simple language. Please let me know if you plan to have any training sessions in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara area in state of CA, I would like to take the opportunity to attend.

Can you please give some insights on few questions as below

1.> What in your view; should a DBA managing around 20+ production database monitor as a health check in a database ( specially from performance prespective) . I know there is no silver bullet , but I am sure expert like you would point to top 10 things a DBA can monitor to ensure that his or her Database is in good state from overall health wise. ( AWR or OEM like other 3rd party tools is not affordable ) .
2.> Now that we have features like ASSM and Locally managed Tablespace,what is the best way to monitor (segments) space monitoring prespective , what should a DBA focus on and how.
3.> I have articles on experts expressing there views on “hit ratios” what are your views ? I still like to get hit ratio as they are good indications of state. Why is do experts hate hit ration , why Oracle still has it documentation or in there performance advisories such as AWR ? What in your way are good performance indicating ratios ?

Please advice.

Virtual classes with pre-recorded sessions and few hours of follow-up question/answer session would be great way to maximize your time and provide value ( in a low cost)… Why don’t you think about it ?.

This way, you will help/teach many people even while you sleep :-)

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

Well recommended!!

Regards,
Onin