hi vinod, definately good step if you are looking for sr management jobs :) and what exactly the meaning of production support, which are verticle business lines you will be handeling, till today you were dba, and who were your customers. are you familier with those business process followed, the challenge in all these exercise is your effort of business process improvement should be able to gain atleast 10-15% of profit every year for your customer. thanks and take care..subodh ________________________________ From: Vinod Gopinath BMMI IT <vinodg@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: askdba@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, 1 March, 2009 15:09:02 Subject: [askdba] Seeking Advice. Friends, I want to move from DBA to Production Support Management. This I suppose would be big leap for me as I feel this is a major stepping stone into Senior Management Category. Can some tell me what sort of courses/knowledge I should attain to reach that level. All comments are welcome Thanks, VG