Re: Crash course for an Oracle DBA

On Wed, March 7, 2007 11:39, Obnoxio The Clown said: > I'm always worried when someone starts out by mapping what they know > of > one database to another. Sooner or later you'll be asking us questions > about how Informix does things that Oracle does, but Informix doesn't > do. I don't think I will do this kind of thing, I'm well used do doing my own research, but I can't make any promises :) What I'm looking for is a grounding, an equivalent to the Oracle Concepts manual. > A reasonably set up Informix instance shouldn't require any real > maintenance effort at all. Are you seeing any particular problems? None, but who knows. We have a very tight SLA on this, and I'm the end of the line, where the buck stops. I want to be prepared. You can say the same for a well set up Oracle instance, and probably just about any commercial RDBMS offering on the market, however, I have no idea who set up this particular database (if that's the right term), and would like to be able to at least tell whether it has been 'reasonably set up'. I do believe that it requires the addition of chunks (terminology again?) occasionally. Hope you get my drift, I'm not looking for a free lunch, just looking for pointers as to the best way to educate myself. -- Tony