December 17, 2014 at 9:42 am
Anyone have experience in going from a DBA to a system/product engineer? What was it like? How did DBA experience help?
March 4, 2015 at 9:29 pm
Would it be a promotion to go from a DBA to a systems engineer/product engineer?
April 13, 2015 at 2:38 am
no direct experience but as a sql server consultant i had to step inside the boundaries of the engineer role quite a few times.
Im not a VM ware expert, i in fact know very little on it but when consulting on client sites i have had to jump in to the visualization topology to identify bottlenecks (ready waits). Virtualization staff insisted sql was at fault, we had to prove innocence.
Im not a SAN expert but i still need to know how to benchmark a SAN to know its capabilities and limitations. I need to know how to identify when the Disk subsystem is the bottleneck.
Im not an app developer but i need to be able to advise when developers apps are causing issues in the app due to parameter sniffing, bad queries etc.
Im certainly not a sharepoint expert, but I had to learn to configure the BI components and kerberos as the resident sharepoint team couldnt. Ive long since forgotten how to do this but i could figure it out again.
Basically what im trying to illustrate that in an engineer role you may get gain a little knowledge in a lot of other areas outside of the database, see how these areas and technologies fit together and affect each other. After a while this will really assist in troubleshooting issues as you can look at the larger picture, not just the small section that is the database. This is how i would think about it, but thats with knowing very little about your situation.
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