Norm! > What you suggest is good. However, I would say that backup and recovery > should be (probably) the most important skills area for any DBA. Upon announcing to our new ERP vendor that I had just returned fresh from the five Oracle7 Intro/DBA classes, the vendor's tech lead told me he was going to break our test database multiple times in some random ways and I needed to fix it each time. Best training ever. And my BCHR was 99.99% for that first year or two... Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l