Re: References request

there are two broad areas of DBA about which you can learn...that of decision support/data warehousing and that of OLTP (on-line transaction processing). perhaps first decide which of these two areas is most relevant for your objectives.

also realize there are two kinds of DBAs....those supporting production enviroments and those supporting development and test environments.

then there are "Application DBAs" who know the details of specific applications, the data model, and the supporitng database(s) and then there are "Physical DBAs" who work closer with the Sys Admin managing more of the database engine itself with respect to performance and configuration.

this gives you three dimensions to help structure the direction you would like to go and the kind of materials to study.

"Chris Phillips" <zennui_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:9aiss5$4mk$1_at_persian.noc.ucla.edu...
> Hey all,
>
> I'm an Access programmer and am looking to become a DBA. I know the
 theory
> of Normalization and SQL and have utilized them, but this newsgroup has
> shown me that I only undertsand them at a very superficial level. (Or at
> least I know nothing of the jargon :-)
>
> I would appreciate any books or websites that may be handy in beginning to
> delve into this field.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Chris
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 04:07:33 CEST