I recently had a email conversation with Greg Baker, a Data Protector guy from Australia. Greg shares his DP knowledge and offers trainings. Im proud to post some links which might be important and invaluable for you too.
Links:
http://www.ifost.org.au/dataprotector/dp8db-hack.pdf – some information to solve DP 8.0 IDB corruption
http://dataprotector.eventbrite.com.au/ – public DP classes in Australia (non HP)
http://dataprotector-bendigo.eventbrite.com.au/ – public DP classes in Australia (non HP)