Checkout the http://www.safaribooksonline.com, they have few oracle courses and I do not think the subscription is expensive although I do not know the price as the company I work for provided us with access to this site. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Justin Mungal <justin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think you really need to send the new person anywhere for training. > > Have the person study the manuals and set up Oracle in a virtualized > environment. If the person is fairly junior at IT in general (I wouldn't > expect this) then you can set it up for them and have them learn the basics > of SQL and so on before moving on to the admin side. Have the person study > the manuals... Concepts, Admin, SQL, Recovery, etc... and get a good book > on database design. Having the person read the Concepts manual when they > start doesn't seem like a bad idea idea to me. > > When I was getting started I had already worked in IT for a good number of > years and knew SQL, so I was able to get up and running pretty quickly. So > a lot of how this person will learn Oracle depends on what they already > know. > > I'd want the person to study and do as much as possible on their own and > ask questions as they come up. I think a big part of being a good Oracle > DBA is actually reading the documentation ahead of time and not just > randomly reading about topics as they come up. I know that not everyone has > that luxury though. > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Jeff C <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> We are looking at training a new DBA from scratch (hiring from within) >> and I am looking for any opinions on where/how/what to train this person >> on. I was thinking of starting with just basic SQL and relational database >> design then onto some pl/sql. After that move on to dba stuff. >> Is there any good free or cheap places to get this kind of training? >> And how would you test a very beginner candidate to know if they would be >> a good fit for this position. Any questions or tests I good give them? >> What would you look for? >> >> This is new to me as I have been mainly the lone dba for years and also >> trained on the job. >> Thanks for any input. >> >> Jeff >> > >