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Indexing Seminar: Why Small Classes? (A Small Plot Of Land) October 5, 2017

Posted by Richard Foote in Index Internals, Index Internals Seminar, Oracle Indexes, Richard Foote Consulting, Richard's Musings.
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Firstly, a huge thank-you to everyone who has enroled in one of my “Indexing Internals and Best Practices” Seminars running soon is Australia. The feedback and overall reaction has been extremely positive and I can’t wait to present all the material I’ve been putting together these past few weeks.

There are currently limited places still available at each of the 6 venues, but places are selling out fast. All enrolment details can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/richard-foote-consulting-pty-ltd-15076769762

A question I’ve been asked a couple of times is why the insistence on only running small classes? I’ve previously run similar events overseas to large audiences, I’ve had classes of 40+ a number of times in Europe and I’ve run a one day version of this at Hotsos last year to more people than I could count (I’m guessing 80+). And while they were all highly successful, I will be restricting classes to much smaller class sizes in this Australia tour and into the future.  There are a number of reasons for this, with the key points being:

  • The seminar has been fully revised and updated and is packed with heaps of new content. I want to be able to cover as much material as is practical and this is only possible with small classes. The more I cover, the more attendees have the opportunity to learn.
  • I really want these seminars to be interactive events, with attendees having plenty of opportunity to ask questions. This makes it a more valuable experience as any ambiguities, doubts, environment specific questions, important bits that people don’t get first time, etc. etc. can clarified and addressed.
  • The seminar goes for 2 days, but if I had 50 people and each person asked 15 mins of questions that needed answering, that’s almost the entire time gone. So larger class sizes makes it impractical to have any meaningful Q&A
  • Attendees bring vast amounts of experiences and solutions to Oracle Indexing related scenarios as all Oracle databases out there utilise indexes. Even on Exadata. Even in future autonomous databases. Small classes gives me the opportunity to tap into this.
  • I want to learn just as much as everybody else and if I do all the talking, I’ll learn nothing new. Small classes gives me the opportunity to learn, based on questions asked and experiences shared.
  • All attendees have their own requirements and expectations from attending the seminar. If someone has specific issues at their environments, what a wonderful opportunity to learn and perhaps get these issues addressed by attending the seminar. Again only practical in small class environments.
  • I will be contacting all attendees BEFORE the seminars to determine what their individual expectations are from the seminars. I will then ensure that any appropriate material is fully covered to meet those expectations. This again is only practical with small class sizes.
  • Finally, you’re spending 2 days with the one and only Richard Foote 🙂 As well as learning more about indexes than you thought possible, as well as learning how an appropriate indexing strategy can dramatically improve database/application performance, as well as discovering an appreciations for the works of David Bowie, it’s also an opportunity to have a sense of 1 on 1 with myself  and that I’m there to directly assist “you” with truly understanding how Oracle indexes should be properly utilised. There is little sense of 1 on 1 with large class sizes.

 

So these seminars are designed very intentionally to be “premium” events, offering a training experience that really is second to none. These seminars have always been very well received so I’m truly excited that I’ll be running these events with the best content I’ve ever compiled. Small class settings gives all attendees the very best opportunity to absorb it all in and apply directly what they’re learnt to improving the performance of their database/application environments..

Like I said, there are only limited places now remaining for the Australian Tour so get in early or else risk missing out.

Events in other parts of our beautiful planet are currently being planned and will be announced in the near future. If you have any questions or requests on where to run these seminars, just ask: richard@richardfooteconsulting.com