I really like what I've read in the O'Reilly MySQL book. I know MySQL isn't the most favored database amongst DBAs (most common complaint: no foreign key checking), but it's popular and the O'Reilly book is very readable.
I once joined a security startup who wanted to create a database of exploits, vulnerabilities, countermeasures, and so on. Many of them had previously worked at Cisco where such a project was like a dead albatross, a symbol of a project that never got anywhere. I pointed them to the early early chapter on database normalization, and they said, in effect, "so that's why we could never do it!" That having been said, I've never been a DBA for a RDBMS beyond my toy problems in MySQL (e.g. amarok backend). -- Obama Nation | My emails do not have attachments; it's a digital signature that your mail program doesn't understand. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ If you are a spammer, please email [email protected] to get blacklisted.
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