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What is the average day of a DBA? (Part 2 of 4)
Steve Jones has asked for some folks in the community to talk about what it’s like to work in our field across four posts. So how do I talk about my job across four job posts? If you didn’t read part 1, you can click here to read about what the day to day is like.
My four series post is structured as:
- Day to day, what is normal? What are 95% of my experiences?
- Best days ever, these are the highlights.
- Worst days ever, these don’t happen all of the time and this is what nightmares are made out of.
- Weird days, Brent Ozar said it best when he said Database Administration is weird.
The best days ever for a DBA.
I should preface that you should have some passion or interest in technology if you are getting into IT. You can find some jobs where the duties and technology will never change. It will be the same forever, typically those are places that move slowly and they don’t need to innovate. These sites just need to keep their service afloat. Those are not the most common for IT, but those places do exist.
What is the average day of a DBA? (Part 1 of 4)
Steve Jones has asked for some folks in the community to talk about what it’s like to work in our field across four posts. So how do I talk about what it’s like in four different ways?
I figured I’ll structure my four post series as:
1. Day to day, what is normal? What are 95% of my experiences?
2. Best days ever, these are the highlights.
3. Worst days ever, these don’t happen all of the time and this is what nightmares are made out of.
4. Weird days, Brent Ozar said it best when he said Database Administration is weird.My study guide to the 70-762: Developing SQL Databases
I couldn’t find a spreadsheet that would help track the topics, ETA, and other notes online, so I decided to compile all of my resources into a singular spreadsheet to help me keep track of studying and to help the community for those taking the 70-762. You can copy / make a copy of this and track yourself.
The tab Topic Resources has been taken from Daniel Calbimonte and his post on MSSQLTips. Huge thanks to him for taking the time to compile all of those resources on those topics!
Passed the 70-761 exam, Querying with Transact-SQL!
Hurray, I passed 70-761! That means you can too!I just thought I’d share briefly how I passed the exam. As a note, the below is how I studied and what I studied, it may or may not be what was on the exam as they change the exams and I cannot discuss what was on the exam directly. Nor can I answer any specifics to the exam, you can find all of this information on Microsoft’s website. I am going to share however, how I got to the point to where I felt comfortable taking and then passing the exam.