Thanks Thraxil,
This is just the type of info I was hoping for. I did some dbadmin stuff way back in '86 (?) for oracle on an IBM 4341 and it had similar maintenance requirements.

My applications won't be large scale, but they will be moderately complex (employee demographic/deparmental info) requiring multiple related tables. The user load will be small (<=6 users). I will be exporting/dumping the composite data regularly to text files anyway since several applications hang off this data and it will take some time to convert them all to use the database. Most of the tables will be refreshed weekly from text files anyway.

I'll be looking forward to the O'Reilly book.

--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: Sysadmin Aspects of DBMS by jlongino
in thread Sysadmin Aspects of DBMS by jlongino

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