On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Martin, Jon R. wrote:

> Francisco,
>
> I feel I have a learned a lot with the "sink or swim" method and
> subscribing to this mail list has helped also.  I first learned about the
> clients and how they worked, then scheduling, and then moved onto things
> like the DB, log, diskpools and tapepools etc...  My opinion is that if you
> are not familiar with the material you won't get much from formal training.
> I've done ok learning it one layer at a time and reading the Administrator's
> Reference.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I will try a simmilar approach
to what you described. Teach the people the clients and scheduling
first and then go into the server/concepts.