On Leadership
I was hoping you would be able to point me to a few good Leadership books or recommend some material to me.
Professional Development
What Does a DBA Do All Day?
It is clear to me that no one, except for database administrators, has any idea what a DBA does all day long:
Join Me at SQL Konferenz 2017
I will be presenting at SQL Konferenz in Darmstadt, Germany next month. If you are in, or near, Darmstadt in February I hope you take the time to join us at SQL Konferenz!
The Future of the DBA
I’ve written before about how databases are like a car engine, and DBAs are like a car mechanic. That’s been the traditional view for production DBAs for, well, forever I think. And that analogy may have been true at one time, and may still be true for some DBAs. But the industry is changing. First we … Read more
2016 Microsoft MVP Summit Preview
This will be my 8th MVP Summit and I am as excited for this one as I was for my first. There’s a lot of reasons why, and I’m going to do m
More General and Less SQL
Many DBAs liken their roles to being a mechanic, and with everything under the hood of SQL Server these days I think an F1 mechanic is an apt comparison.
