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Career Growth and How You Can Achieve Explosive Results

March 5, 2013 by John Sansom 20 Comments

Bench Press

Continued investment in your professional development for career growth is hard. It’s also essential to being a successful Data Professional.

Discover out how to achieve dramatic career growth and results from your professional development efforts.

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Career Growth, Career Progression, Featured

How To Simply Say You’re a DBA

September 3, 2012 by John Sansom 14 Comments

Have you ever looked back on a conversation where someone asked you “what do you do?” and felt disappointed with your reply? Same here. So how do you explain to someone, who is not familiar with your field, what it is exactly that you do? Just last week my girlfriend and I were out to dinner to […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Database Administrator, Job Description

Get Your Ass to PASS!

June 20, 2012 by John Sansom 7 Comments

This year there are to be no excuses, and I mean it. You know what I’m talking about. There’s always some reason why you can’t go to the PASS Summit, why you can’t make it this time around. Maybe the timing is just not quite right, you can’t get the time off work, maybe there’s […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Community, Events, SQLPass

Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone?

April 17, 2012 by John Sansom 6 Comments

Last week the SQL community and in particular the blogosphere, was buzzing with interest noise following the Microsoft Learning site publishing details of significant changes to SQL Server Certifications. Here We Go Again You know the drill. It’s the usual dance we go through every 5 years or so, where the Microsoft marketing machine spins […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Career, Database Administrator, Database Developer

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