The Oracle Instructor

About me

My name is Uwe Hesse and I live in Viersen (Germany) together with my wife Mitra and our little daughter Donya. I am working for Oracle since 2000 after several other engagements in the IT business. The line of business I am working in for the corporation is Oracle University, where I meanwhile  reached the grade of a Senior Principal Instructor, which is the 5th “Individual Contributor Level” (IC5) at Oracle Corp. Previously, I said “International Career Level”, but that seems to be indeed not correct – one of those abbrevations that everybody in the organization uses but almost nobody knows exactly what it means – However: It is a high level

I am teaching a broad spectrum of core technology courses, amongst others

Oracle Database Administration Workshop I 

Oracle Database Administration Workshop II

Oracle Database Backup & Recovery

Oracle Database Performance Tuning

Oracle Database New Features (8i - 11g)

Oracle Database Data Warehouse Administration

Oracle Database Data Guard Administration

Oracle Database RAC Administration 

Oracle Grid Infrastructure: Manage Clusterware & ASM

Exadata Database Machine Administration

I am Oracle Certified Master (Database Administration 10g & 11g) and also Oracle Certified Professional (Database Administration versions 9i, 10g and 11g). In 2009 and again in 2012, I got elected to the Oracle University Leadership Circle, an internal award for the best Oracle Instructors from around the globe.

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About this Blog

The idea is to share knowledge with the Oracle community, so that we get a better understanding of the technology and are able to leverage its many features for an effective and efficient usage. I also use the Blog to provide the students from my courses with the additional material I have shown in my demonstrations during the class.

I decided to use English language for this Blog although the majority of courses I deliver is in German, because the number of courses that I teach in EMEA increases and even the number of courses with English language that I deliver in Germany increases, due to the customer requirements that international staff has to attend them.

Mission Statement

Usually, departments or companies have Mission Statements, I suppose. Well who knows, maybe I will found my own company … 

My goal when I present something boils down to two key points:

1. Understandability
2. Empowerment

It is very important to achieve a good understanding in the first place. It is much more important than showing how clever the presenter is. Therefore, I take much effort (although it may look very easy to the audience) to keep the lesson as simple and to the point as possible without sacrificing too much technical accuracy.

Whenever the time & topic allows it, I will combine the theory with demonstrations that can also be reproduced by the attendees. This leads me to the second key point Empowerment:

The reproduceable demonstrations together with the (hopefully) good understandability will empower the attendees to make use of the shown technology themselves. Not only the presenter is capable of doing those things – I can do it myself! Demonstrations will also have the effect to prove (or sometimes falsify even) the statements of the presenter. When I say “Don’t believe it, test it!”, that means two things:

Don’t believe me just because I say it is so or so – I could be wrong. Also don’t believe something about Oracle Databases yourself unless you have tested that belief. Good examples: Don’t believe your backup is working. Test it – before you actually need it. Don’t believe your Performance Tuning task was successful, test it by comparing the present state with a baseline you took before the tuning activity.