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The Great DBA Getaway

December 12, 2012 by John Sansom 1 Comment

It’s holiday season which means it’s a time for you all to buy me gifts super busy time for Data Professionals! Bosses are keen to take of advantage of the opportune downtime to get maintenance done and your colleagues are abandoning the office in droves. Leaving their troubles and work behind them, most likely for you to […]

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Planning, Time Management, Work-life-balance

Your Road to Becoming a DBA: Getting Organised

February 13, 2012 by John Sansom 6 Comments

Getting Organised

Knowing precisely how to start on your next adventure is tricky. With so many options and decisions in front of you, identifying what is the best way to move forward for you is vital.

In this third instalment I’m going to be talking about everything else that I wanted to cover in reply to the readers email, which is kind of ironic really because the first point I want to make next is about being organised.

Filed Under: Professional Development, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Becoming a DBA, CV Witting, DBA Books, Goal Setting, Organisation, Planning

DBA Survival Skills – Think Defensively

April 12, 2010 by John Sansom 15 Comments

No matter how much of a Super Hero DBA you consider yourself to be, I can guarantee you that there that there will come a time when you have to deal with either a disaster scenario or some form of mistake. Interestingly however, it is what happens next that separates the Pro’s from everyone else. Things Can […]

Filed Under: Disaster Recovery, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Backups, Planning, Thinking Defensively

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