Hi Abdul,
First you would have to decide whether you want to go for 8i or 9i DBA certification. I think 9i makes sense.
Go to site
Oracle certification and read about certification. You would need to atleast get OCP certification to start working as DBA. You would have to pass 4 exams for this.
As I have gathered from many sources Sybex books are good for enough first 2 exams. (www.sybex.com)
OCA/OCP: Introduction to Oracle9i™ SQL Study Guide
OCA/OCP: Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals I Study Guide (1Z0-031)
- By Chip Dawes; Biju Thomas Also there is set of books by Jason Couchman for first 2 exams.
Oracle OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification Exam Guide, Jason Couchman For exam IZ01-007 only sybex books is sufficient. For 2nd exam. referring to actual Oracle documentation will be helpful. Link is
Oracle Documents Oracle 9i concepts and Oracle 9i Database administrator's guide are 2 useful books
Also you may want to join
ocp_study and
oracle_certprep groups on yahoo.
Hope this helps
[ June 01, 2003: Message edited by: Rei Damle ]