RE: New database releases - training dev staff

Hi Bob

> In the past, we've done some "brown bag" lunchtime sessions 
> in a conference room, primarily DBAs giving brief (30min) 
> sessions on new features, or cool tips/tricks with SQL or 
> PL/SQL, the 10g recyclebin, and so forth, usually with senior
> development staff and dev team technical managers.

This is for sure a good way to do it. The main problem, IMHO, is that in the 
last years there are some dev stuff (e.g. OO, XML, Java,...) that the DBA 
simple doesn't master well enough for a correct know how transfer (it's almost 
impossible to really master all feature of the current versions...).

>Thoughts?

For this reason at Trivadis, the company for which I work, we provide "New 
Features for Developers" courses. For example in the next 3 weeks I'll be 
onsite by two companies to train a "whole" dev team. One of the main advantages 
is that we provide information not only on "how the feature should work", but 
also "how it works in reality" (e.g. it's buggy, stay away...).

Of course both "methods" have pro and cons. And here I stop the discussion 
because I'm probably biased ;-)

Regards,
Chris

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