Re: Some Pointers for a DBA "to be"

In addition to the excellent book recommendations already posted, you may also take the new Informix training course "Managing and Optimizing for the Informix BaaN Environment." It is scheduled in Chicago and Sacremento in Q1 of '99. The course is designed for the beginner to both environments. See the web site of the International Informix Users Group at http://www.iiug.org for a pretty comprehensive list of Informix- related publications, and an excellent software library. Another thing you may find there is another archive of the newsgroup comp.databases.informix, in whose pages you can find extensive discussions on what the DBA does. HTH, Clem At 05:23 PM 07-01-99 GMT, jwright@numatics.com wrote: >I have just taken a job were I will be training to be the Informix DBA. I am >looking for some direction on what I should start learning first. We will be >running Baan IV w/Informix Online 7.23 on an R/S 6000 running AIX Unix. > >I have no experience as a DBA. Currently all my experience is with NT Server >as a LAN Admin. And I have just taken the Intro to Tools for Baan. > >Do I need to learn programming or is learning SQL enough? >What will my day to day tasks be? >Are there any books I need to buy? ( I have "The AIX Survival Guide" ) [...] _______________________________________________________________ Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) Menlo Park x5937 Customer Course Development Informix Software, Inc Last seen: Back in "The Bay Area"--San Francisco!