how does one become a dba

Dan Clamage's "Through a lot of blood, sweat and tears, pal." is real, however to be a real DBA and not an installer + grant and compile executor I would suggest to start with SQL (last standard is some 1200 pages) but you'll be up and running in 4 hours and get your hands dirty..
PL/SQL is a must as step 2, but even before take all the documentation (Oracle concepts is the first - it requires 2 university courses as prerequisite data structures + relational databases ) after these you'll find your way alone

bonne chance !

razvan Received on Sun Sep 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT