April 23, 2009 at 8:49 am
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Knowing what you know now, what advice, study paths and general tips would give to an aspiring DBA/DB Developer that is currently in a IT Technical support role.
April 23, 2009 at 8:55 am
My first recommendation is always, get a copy of SQL Server Dev Edition for yourself, and start building and testing things with it. If you aren't spending at least an hour a day on SQL, either professionally or at home, you'll never get anywhere with it. And that's the absolute minimum I'd recommend.
Spend time on these forums and on similar pages. See if you can answer people's questions. If you can, wonderful, do so. If you can't, then test out the answers others give and make sure you understand them.
Expect to spend a lot of time gaining and honing skills. That applies to any type of work, not just being a DBA, but in the IT world, expect that your skills will be time-consuming to achieve, and just about the time you have something mastered, it will be obsolete and you'll have to learn something new. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Personally, I enjoy it.
The most basic thing to understand is that skill in SQL is a moving target.
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