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A Better DBA Job Description For Everyone
Here is a typical job description that you can find online just about anywhere. It lists almost everything possible and imaginable. And it, well…I’ll just let you read it all for yourself and make up your own mind. Enjoy.
Position Summary:
This is a MS SQL Server DBA role largely responsible for providing operational database services [...]
How To Find a DBA
My post yesterday seems to have struck a nerve with quite a few readers. So while the topic is still fresh in my mind I thought I could jot down a few more words on how to find those SQL Server experts that appear to be eluding everyone. It would seem that perhaps this has [...]
Where Have All The Good Managers Gone?
Over the past two weeks I have seen and heard more than a handful of people ask a very simple question: Where are all the SQL Server experts? Many people have offered an answer as to why there is a “shortage” of experts to be found, but none of the explanations I have read seem [...]
Who Is Responsible For What?
In my previous life I was a production DBA which meant my primary responsibility was recovery. I also took my job role to be that of a general SQL Server expert. I stayed general because no one person can possible be an expert in every facet under the SQL Umbrella. A few years ago I [...]
When 24 Hours Is Not Enough
Many of you have some awareness regarding the 24 Hours of PASS events that I have helped to promote previously. When I was asked to help arrange for the upcoming event I targeted the list of current Summit speakers. This made logical sense to me since we want to make it a Summit preview. So [...]
SQL Saturday #51 Nashville Recap
I returned from Nashville yesterday, having been there for four days to take part in SQL Saturday as well as the most recent in-face PASS Board meetings. This was my first ever trip to Nashville and I had really just one goal in mind as a tourist: to find some good music. I managed to [...]
24 Hours of PASS v3.2
Just about one year ago PASS launched a brand new concept in training: 24 consecutive one hour presentations done live by remote presenters around the globe. I still remember the PASS board meeting when Rick Heiges (blog | twitter) suggested the format. Some were skeptical but overall we mostly said “Do you think that can [...]
Don’t Just Be Right, Make It Right
We wanted to bring our bikes on vacation this year, so that we could ride as a family along the Cape Cod Rail Trail. We needed a bike rack for the four bikes, but before that we needed to have a hitch put on our car. So we made an appointment to have the work [...]
Top Ten Presentation Mistakes
I have been giving presentations of one form or another for many years now. In fact, you could go back to my days in college when I took a public speaking course, and that was half a lifetime ago (but it is still relevant). Over the years I have learned a handful of things when [...]
Return of the 24 Hours of PASS
In case you missed it I wanted to let everyone know that we are planning on doing our third 24 Hours of PASS. I sent out a call for abstracts recently to the people that have been selected to present at the PASS Summit in November (about 70 people in total). I got back about [...]
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