Need to be a DBA FAST

Hi ...

I am a Networks Administrator in the Danish Postal Service, and our to-be Oracle Administrator just quit (after only 1 month "in service :), and I'm to become the new DBA (as if i hadn't enough to do :)...

I have some database experience, but not very much (know some basic SQL skills, but only from the administrative "side of things", wich should be enough...

What training should i get ? what books should i read ? What courses should i attend ? is the CBT courses any good ?

I've looked in the Oracle course catalog and saw the Oracle 8: Database Administration course (420 as far as i remember) wich is held over 5 days, it looks quite ok - this should be a good starters course right ?

The next i would attend would be : Oracle8 : Backup and Recovery since backup is something everyone should do (do YOU backup ? :)))

So what i want to know is :
What courses is the best to be up and running as a Oracle DBA when you have no knowlenge of Oracle whatsoever and have only a month to be up to date... (25 days to be exact :)

Yours
Søren Received on Wed Mar 03 1999 - 06:25:37 CST