I survived MEEP....

My 90 days in Hell are over. I did my exam yesterday.

The concept of the exam was simple:
First I had to do a Presentation about the education, about my experiences, mistakes made along the way, Pro´s, Con´s etc.
After doing this presentation, I was to answer questions about Oracle by the audience.
The whole session took about 2 hours.

My Presentations contained the following points:

1. Introduction - MEEP, Inspired by the Royal Danish Special Forces training method.
2. Introduction of Me and my Background
3. My experiences with Miracle and My Colleagues
4. The course of MEEP, The Books, The Plan etc.
5. The Learning Method, How I learned the Stuff, Mistakes made along the way etc.
6. MEEP v.2.0 - The next batch (In Progress)
7. Questions

The Questions, of course, were the most nerve-wracking part of the Session.
And I was, I must admit, on thin ice during some of the questions. This was primarily due to my frayed nerves, since I was able to answer many of the same questions the day before, where I went through the Oracle Concepts Guide with my Mentor, Lenn Mikkelsen.

Lenn asked me questions about all the topics, and even though I could´nt answer all of them, he told me that my Knowledge Level was good enough to do the Exam. Lenn helped me a lot through the last few days. Thank You, Lenn.
For those of you who don´t know Lenn, I can tell you that he has over twenty years of experience and is extremely skilled.

Anyway, I got through the questions and then it was jugdement time. Every person in the Audience was asked if they thought I passed or not and they had to substantiate their statement. All of them gave me the thumps up, and Mogens said: 'Welcome To Miracle'.

So what now? I will now start working in a more 'normal' fashion, by taking my place in the Miracle group, that do Online Checks.
I´m already responsible for 3 Customers. That said, I am still going to read books and develop my skills. For example, I want to improve my SQL and possibly even learn some PL/SQL. A little further ahead, I would like to learn SQL Server too.

As for this blog, I´m turning it over to the new MEEP batch; Lars, Martin, Flemming and Morten. Good Luck to you Guys...
In fact, one of them has already started his own blog, meandmeep.blogspot.com. Check it out!

Jan