and learned a ton from the presenter. I need to quantify what this goals means. Do I want a certain level of understanding of Oracle internals? Do I want my skills to be to the point where I can troubleshoot any Production problem/outage? Do I want to be able to draw an Oracle SGA and all its components and processes from memory? Is it peer approval that means I’ve “arrived” at a certain level? I have a few thoughts about this.