Re: Oracle DBA training

This is what we did in our company: 2 years ago we migrated (rewrote, actually) our application to Oracle. We took on one guy who had PL/SQL programming experience and basic DBA skills. Since installing a server is pretty rare, we also contracted a professional DBA to do the installations with us. We share the DBA admin, and only call on our external DBA when there is a major change to be carried out.

As we're a small company, the major thing is to concentrate on what we know, which is the business. It's simply not worth our while investing time and money training ourselves to a top level on Oracle DBA. The result is that it makes more sense to outsource the areas which really require experience to someone who does that for a living.

Basically, find a good DBA to do the installation, and make sure he/she will also show you how it's done so you can learn.

"Ryan" <ryki7_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:tchkpt11id2ed4_at_corp.supernews.com...
>
> > My advise to you would be to take a job in a special forces combat
> battalion. Your chances of survival are better.
>
> This comment is hilarious.
>
> >
> > To learn to administer an Oracle Database Server in under a month, heck
 in
> > three months, is just plain impossible. Unless you get some joy out of
 doing a
> > lousy job and when everything goes to H being booted out the door into
 an
> > unemployment line.
> >
> > Daniel A. Morgan
> >
> I want to do the best job I can do. Therefore I think it's time for me to
> look at some more extensive Oracle classes. 2 questions for the experts
> however:
>
> 1) What books do you recommend to start off with?
>
> 2) Would I be better off purchasing a server with Oracle pre-installed? or
> getting training and doing it myself?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
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