Re: Training/Education - was PostgreSQL: The Gameplan for world domination

On Friday 20 Jun 2003 10:40 am, Kaarel wrote:
> > PostgreSQL Training and Education System
> > ****************************************
> >
> > For a while now we've been at the stage of several separate companies
> > working on separate PostgreSQL training, with no real centralised
> > "recognisable" way of us communicating to end users which options are
> > good, bad, etc.

Have none of these companies approached any of the core developers? I suppose
the issue would be to define suitable levels of experience:

Basic: installation & setup, backup/restore, security
Experienced: performance tuning, dblink/textsearch
Advanced: adding custom features, replication, migration

Hmm - not sure if some of that is more developer than dbadmin.

> I was wondering what if there is a online test somewhere in
> postgresql.org? Something along the lines of
> http://www.mysql.com/certification/selftest/core/index.php
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> Not sure if it's worth it though I just had an idea...

One interesting point - I discovered some time back that a college in the USA
had used part of my PG Notes in their course (all properly attributed etc). I
think the reason was there was a sample schema with a perl script to generate
sample data.

A set of exercises/tutorials structured similar to a university DB course
might get widespread exposure (lecturers being as busy as the rest of us).

--
Richard Huxton