That is pretty open question. Check here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic699786-149-1.aspx

Not to discourage you, but..

About a year ago, when we were looking for DBA, half of the resumes we have received had mentioning of DBA certification of some kind....

I was using that what you are trying to do about 5 years ago on SS2000 with about 150 servers with Linked Servers, when we were pulling all Server(s) and...

About 5 years ago, when my main Prod database was about 1.5TB (on SS2K) we were using the following:

LiteSpeed for backup and restore.

Tran Logs Dumps every 15mins.

Diff backups every...

You mentioned that you want to move away from the banking industry you work for to IT. I wouldn't do it. How about merging it?

So if you really want...

Instead of one reindex job, can you create multiple reindex jobs, so to run them in parallel?

Well, as pointed out earlier, set all your servers as Linked Servers. Create a table in master db of a monitoring server which will keep the inventory of all your...

If I were you I would start doing the following (as many suggested): work with your manager, but most likely it will lead you to nowhere and his promise to...

Will it work for you: xp_cmdshell 'net localgroup Administrators'

I work for the failry big investment company and, as many mentioned above, SA's support everything related to Server(s), except SQL Server related work, which are maintained by DBA. While...

I took New Horizons training about 11 years ago with SQL Server 7 on 42 street. I liked them and based on my experience I would recommend them. Keep in...

Hate to say, but did you try to google it: sql server dba resume

Set your Database(s) to 'AUTO CLOSE' and then check ErrorLog to see which ones are being used

Few months ago we decided not to have a schedule enabled in disabled jobs to avoid unwanted runs, like described above

Well, I don't want to hurt his feelings if he is reading that thread, but basically because he wasn't fast enough, couldn't do more then 1 task at a...