Re: How long for me to take Oracle from 0 to 60?

Hi Bill,

Depending on the nature of the database, this both looks like career suicide and a sure way to get into chapter 12.
That said, get:
Oracle8i the complete reference
and
the Oracle 8(i?) DBA Handbook by Kevin Loney immediately.
I would definitely attend the DBA course, and I would definitely start to RTFM before you do anything, especially the Oracle Concepts Manual. I would also subscribe to http://technet.oracle.com (free) and get a decent Metals support contract, so you have access to Metalink.

Hth,

--
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Bill Littman <blittman_at_nospam_tomotherapy.com> wrote in message news:84aj37$no7$1_at_news.chorus.net...
> Hi-
>
> There is a good chance that I will be changing my duties to become an
Oracle
> developer and administrator. I have installed 8i Enterprise Edition,
Release
> 8.1.5 and I am not sure where to proceed from here.
>
> Here is my background: I have programmed in C for the past 17 years and
Java
> for the past 3 years. I have never been a DBA, but I have developed some
> lower end databases: M204, dBase, Zim, Access. I still remember a decent
> portion of my database theory. I have never worked with Oracle.
>
> I work for a very small start-up company. If I change roles, I will be the
> only Oracle person for a little while, and may get a junior engineer to
help
> sometime mid to late next year. We are developing a product from scratch.
> The database schema has been partially worked out. There has been no
> database work yet.
>
> Here are my questions:
> - Am I committing career suicide? I am a quick learner, but is there so
much
> to learn about Oracle that I will be struggling for a long time without an
> in house expert?
>
> - What resources do you recommend I start with? Classes? Books? On-line
> tutorials?
>
> - Any other advice? Any other resources that helped you grok Oracle?
>
> Thanks for any responses.
>
> -Bill Littman
>
>
>
>
Received on Tue Dec 28 1999 - 09:29:55 CST