Senior Development DBA You’ve now likely reached the last stop in your career as a Development DBA. You have arrived at the Senior level. What skills do you have or should you be working on as a Senior Development DBA? I’m glad you asked. Let’s find out. Senior Development DBA – 7+ years of experience … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 8
Lead Development DBA Over the past few weeks I have been writing about DBA skills for various career levels, and for a couple of different DBA types – the Production DBA and the Development DBA. Today, we’re examining the Lead Development DBA. You’ll discover what this person needs to know. DEV DBA III/Lead Development DBA … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 7
In Part 1 of this series we began to look at how you can leverage PowerShell as a DBA and there was a brief discussion about automation. Today you will experiment with the DBATools command Copy-DbaLogin and learn about Out-Gridview and the -whatif switch. Let’s suppose you have one, or more logins you need to … Continue reading Introduction To PowerShell For The DBA Part 2
Automating Tasks With PowerShell What we’re really talking about in this series is automation, specifically by using PowerShell. Now, in simple terms, automation is about removing the human, manual element in doing tasks. Why should you care about that? Automation will provide the following benefits: Automation saves you time Automation provides consistency Automation results … Continue reading Introduction To PowerShell for the DBA Part 1
Development DBA II With the last post, we began talking about the Development DBA and the skills needed at the beginning of this career path. Now it’s time for you to ponder what the next level looks like. Development DBA II – 2 to 4 Years of Experience All competencies from level 1 Develop basic … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 6
Development DBA We’ve been on a journey recently in this series as we discuss measuring your DBA skills. Previous posts have been intriguing to you. You like where this is going and yet, your skills are different from what we’ve been discussing in this initial part of the series. Maybe you are a Developer who … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 5
Dear reader, we’ve been on a bit of a journey recently so that you can discover what skills are needed at various levels or phases of your career. The first three phases have been covered in previous blog posts and you have now come to the Senior level for the Production DBA. So, how do … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 4
In this series on measuring your DBA skills, we’ve been discussing what skills you should have at each phase of your career. So far we’ve covered the entry level skills and the phase 2 skills a Production DBA needs. In this part of the series you’re discovering what a Production DBA needs to know or … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part 3
You may be wondering, “How can I know what phase of my career I am in? How can I see what the next steps might look like in terms of skills I may need to move forward?” As people change jobs, the gears of career progression are turning. Some new roles may be the same … Continue reading How-Do-I-Measure-My-DBA-Skills-Part-2
Career development and progression is a hot topic for everyone. It starts really early in life like when some adult asks you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” You might have said “firefighter”, “ballerina”, “ice skater”, or “gymnast”. I’m certain you didn’t say “DBA”, but here you are anyway, at … Continue reading How Do I Measure My DBA Skills Part – 1