>Hi, > >We are in a process of purchasing Oracle Database. >This deal will include >hands-on training as well. The course outline given >by the dealer is as >follows: >* Database physical & logical Architecture. >* Database Startup and Shutdown. >* Database physical & logical backups. >* Operating system backups. >* User Creation. >* Database issues understanding. >It would be a great help to me if you could >add/cross out from this list. > >TIA! > >Aleem
Aleem, About a decade ago, when the whole of the DBA guide was still holding in a single volume, I carried out an interesting exercise : for each topic from the 'concepts' manual, I compared the number of relevant pages in the 'DBA Guide'. The ratio was very interesting; as seen from Oracle Corp some topics were conceptually hard to understand but of little practical importance while others were easy to understand but a pain to manage - and I broadly agreed with their perception. Besides my adding a SQL course to your list, understand that most problems a Junior DBA encounters are linked (besides mundane difficulties such as access rights to OS files/directories) to user management (grants and privileges, security issues) and storage management (the way tables and indices, chiefly, are physically stored and evolve over time). Plus of course backup and recovery, but I am glad to see that it figures prominently in your list (I don't know about other countries, but Oracle France proposes a 'DBA level 1' and a 'DBA level 2' courses, and backup and recovery are level 2 topics!). If you understand and manage well backup/recovery, users and storage this is enough for a start, and performance issues will naturally come in their time ... HTH, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephane Faroul INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
