Tag Archives: DBA Qualities

Paranoid? Control Freak? Have I got a career for you…

The above personality traits sound like bad news. In most areas of life they certainly can be. That being said a DBA needs to have a certain aspect of these to best do their jobs.
As I blogged about in “Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms“, I describe other careers where a keen eye to detail and a [...]

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Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms

What do checklists, recipes or algorithms have to do with Database Administration? A lot… If we study a few career paths we can see how a checklist or process flow  makes their lives easier. I love stealing ideas from everyday life, working them into something useful for my DBA career and I think we have [...]

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Where do I start?!?!

As a SQL Server DBA, where do I start?
So you are a new DBA. Maybe you are someplace that hasn’t had a DBA, maybe you are someplace that didn’t have a great DBA. Requests are piling up, your head is spinning with the instances you are discovering and people are getting excited that there is [...]

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DBA Questions To Ask A Vendor

A while back a conversation on Jonathan Kehayias’ former blog (he has moved) gave me an idea for this post.
Once you have been a DBA for any length of time, you will encounter the situation of a new vendor coming in with software that has a database back end. Wherever I am working or [...]

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