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Featured Online Classes, Free Webinars and Events

Coming December 7, 2010 - Featured Online Classes – PL/SQL Lunch Series with Steven Feuerstein – We welcome back PL/SQL master Steven Feuerstein, who will present three two-hour webinars: Turbo-charge PL/SQL Execution with Bulk Processing, Writing Maintainable PL/SQL Code and Error Management Features of Oracle PL/SQL...

August 20 - Free Online Training – JavaScript in APEX - The Lost Lesson for Database Developers – JavaScript is a very important part of any well-built Web 2.0 application. In this session, explore JavaScript through a series of analogies, 9 in total, that will relate important concepts...

August 4 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express "Plug-Ins" – This high level introduction to plug-ins will demonstrate how they can save your organization development time and money. Receive the next SkillBuilders plug-in – one week before its release to the general public...

Recorded July 9 - Free Online Training – Rapid Development with the Grails Platform – Grails is a dynamic-language based, complete-stack framework that brings simplicity and elegance to web development. It uses the Groovy programming language...

Recorded June 29 at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 – Free Online Training – JavaScript in APEX: A Lesson for the PL/SQL Developer – Oracle Application Express developers often have strong backgrounds in SQL and PL/SQL, but JavaScript is another story. However, JavaScript is a very important part of any well-built Web 2.0 application...

Recorded June 23 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express Version 4.0 is a Game Changer – APEX 4.0 is a game changer – and it's closer than you may think! Some of the highlights of the release include Improved Interactive Reports, Websheets, Dynamic Actions and Plug-Ins...

Recorded June 17 - Free Online Training – Learn How To Use Oracle Analytic Functions – SQL allows you to perform queries to answer a wide range of questions about your data. While standard SQL is quite powerful, there are many questions that it cannot answer or can only answer with complex, inefficient workarounds....

Recorded June 4 - Free Online Training – Groovy for Java Developers – Groovy is part of the new generation of dynamic languages for the JVM. It's not intended to replace Java, but rather...

Recorded May 5 - Free Online Training – Oracle Application Express as a Reporting Solution – Learn how to use APEX to build applications used solely for reporting purposes. Topics include: Creating both standard and interactive reports...

April 5-6 - Featured Class – "Best of PL/SQL!" with Steven Feuerstein. Sheraton Needham, MA. – Learn about the most important features of the PL/SQL language from Oracle Ace and PL/SQL expert Steven Feuerstein, focusing on the major advances...

Recorded March 5 - Free Online Training – Designer/Developer Workflow with Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst provide the easiest and most rapid way to build engaging Rich Internet Applications today. In this webinar, we show you how to use Flash Catalyst to convert a designer's Photoshop file into a Flex 4 UI...

Presented February 3 - Free Online Training – jQuery Tabs in Oracle Application Express (Apex) Many developers and organizations are looking for ways to take their Application Express (Apex) applications to the next level. On the client side, one of the best tools available for this purpose is jQuery and jQuery UI...

Recorded January 12 - Free Online Training – Using the Oracle 11g SQL Results Cache Learn how to configure and use the Oracle Database 11g SQL Results Cache in this webinar. Dave will teach the fundamentals of the cache, then demonstrate how to configure, use, monitor and do performance testing using the results cache...

Presented December 10 - Free Online Training – Introduction to Oracle Application Express (Apex) Application Express is an easy to use platform for developing data-centric web based applications...What can Apex do for me or my organization?...What features are available? more...

Presented December 8 - Dave Anderson presented "Oracle 11g Cache Features" at NYOUG's 25th Anniversary Metro Area Meeting – links to the presentation and scripts are here.

Recorded November 18 - Free Online Training – Oracle Forms to Oracle APEX – A Migration Roadmap Oracle Application Express (Apex) provides an HTML-based migration path for Oracle Forms applications while leveraging existing SQL and PL/SQL knowledge. Learn about the main differences between object-oriented platforms...

Recorded November 3 - Free Online Training – "Look What You Can Do With PL/SQL!" with Steven Feuerstein This webinar provides a whirlwind tour of some of the most exciting features of PL/SQL that you all should know about and use, including DBMS_ERRLOG, FORALL, BULK COLLECT and DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_BACKTRACE....

Recorded October 21 - Free Online Training – Introduction to Oracle Application Express (Apex) Application Express is an easy to use platform for developing data-centric web based applications...What can Apex do for me or my organization?...What features are available? more...

Recorded October 5 - Customizing Oracle Grid Control with User Defined Metrics and Reports. Learn how to use "User Defined Metrics" in Oracle Grid Control. This session is going to be highly technical in nature. Topics include...

Recorded September 23 - Free Online Training – Oracle Security: Guidelines for an Effective Audit. This webinar outlines the need for securing Oracle, and explores the traditional approach versus the correct approach. Topics include...

Recorded September 17 - Free Online Training – jQuery Tabs in Oracle Application Express. Many developers and organizations are looking for ways to take their Application Express (Apex) applications to the next level. On the client side, jQuery and jQuery UI....

Presented September 9 - Free Online Introduction to Oracle Data Guard Training. What is High Availability? What is Disaster Recovery? And why do we need them? This webinar, geared toward both technical staff and management...

Recorded August 12, 2009 - Free Online Training: Scaling to Infinity – Partitioning Data Warehouses on Oracle. Learn the basic design issues necessary to scaling data warehouses in size while maintaining performance and manageability...

June 5, 2009 - Free Oracle 11g New Features Training Part II. Learn about the native compilation feature for PL/SQL, and Database Replay...

May 19, 2009 - Free Oracle 11g New Features Training. Learn about performance enhancements, including improved analysis of Wait Events...

April 20, 2009 - SkillBuilders announces a displaced worker training program. Receive tuition savings of 50% on...

Recorded April 13, 2009 - Free Oracle SQL Tuning Training: Analyzing Execution Plans Learn to find inefficiencies in statement processing and how to identify operations that....

April 3, 2009 - Free Oracle Application Express Training "Shared Spreadsheet Nightmares? Oracle APEX to the Rescue!" Learn to create an APEX application...free.

March 20, 2009 - Ed Whalen presents online Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Training. View recorded training, free..

February 27, 2009 - Geoff Wiland teaches Oracle PL/SQL "Understanding and Using PL/SQL Arrays and Bulk Processing" View recorded training, free..

February 23, 2009 - XML Training by Geoff Wiland, SkillBuilders "Understanding and Using XML" View Recorded Presentation (free)

December 8, 2008 - Online Oracle Database training calendar updated - more Advanced SQL Queries for Oracle 10g classes scheduled.

September 16, 2008 - SkillBuilders announces immediate release of Oracle Database 11g New Features Workshop for Administrators (DBAs)

September 10, 2008 - Oracle training by Dave Anderson: "How, When and Why to Use Oracle SQL Trace". Recorded Presentation

August 19, 2008 - SkillBuilders launches Oracle Application Express (APEX) Workshop for Release 3.1. This hands-on training is offered online and in-classroom... View our full press release or the detailed Course Outline

August 12, 2008 1 PM EST - Free Online Training Session: Solaris Network Failover and Load Spreading Features.

June 26, 2008 - Free Online Training Session: Effective Use of Oracle SQL Trace, presented by Dan Fink, Oracle Oak Table Member. Click here for the recorded presentation

June 2, 2008 - Oracle Tuning webinars "Free Yourself of Statspack" scheduled for June 4 (India) June 5 (US and UK). Oracle Performance class (instructor-led, online) starts June 11.

May 22, 2008 - By popular demand, another XML DB webinar scheduled! May 28, 1PM EDT.

April 2, 2008 - Online Oracle Database class calendar updated. Free 11g and XML DB webinars scheduled.

March 25 and 26, 2008 - SkillBuilders hosted Oracle Business Intelligence Tech Days in Hartford, CT (3/25) and Providence, RI (3/26). Click here for more information..

March 24, 2008 - We've added new free practice exams for Oracle 10g and 9i, Java, Security and more, and new free tutorials. Click here for tutorials and here for exams (free registration required).

March 13, 2008 - Geoff Wiland presented Part II of his "XML in Oracle" presentation at the NYOUG Long Island SIG meeting. Click here to download the presentation. Click here for the scripts.

March 5, 2008 - New online class schedule is posted. Schedule, Course Descriptions and Registration.

January 29, 2008 - Geoff Wiland presented "XML in Oracle" Part I at the NYOUG Long Island SIG meeting. Click here to download the presentation.

January 17, 2008 - Kyle Hailey, Oracle Oak Table Member, presented Oracle Performance Tuning with Average Active Sessions. Download the presentation. (317kb PDF)