I think MCTS and MCITP were relatively quick and easy to get.

There is no excuse for anyone serious to not get them within the 3 years between major releases.

However...

Same here....

amy26 (9/29/2011)

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the one job I have an interview for tomorrow I might cancel... the benefits are terrible! They only get 5 holidays a year... seriously? And I will...

amy26 (9/29/2011)

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And honestly, there aren't a lot of SQL Server jobs in the DC area (full time non W-2 stuff). Most of the companies here are all on Oracle...

amy26 (9/29/2011)

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I do have some progress on the job front though... I have one interview tomorrow that the lady says I would be "perfect" for. And it does sound...

amy26 (9/28/2011)

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Basically, I'm bored as gov't life (at least at my agency) doesn't allow for creativity or implementing new and exciting things. The extent of my day usually consists...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (8/15/2011)Certifications can help there, especially as some HR departments use them as a filter. When you get 100 resumes for a position, that's not a...

I agree with previous posters. The market seems to be going mostly Oracle and SQL Server. So many applications come with SQL Server or Oracle as the preferred backend database...

At my current job I was initially hired for SQL Server Administration of the production environments.

But I had that fully optimized and automated within three months.

So now I also...

I have used certs to justify keeping myself in the top 10%-20% area of the salary ranges for Senior SQL Server DBAs.

If all you have is experience, but non-certification, then...

homebrew01 (7/28/2011)

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I am waiting to hear back from a non-profit charity that I've applied to (bored & dead-end at my current job). I found out it would be a big...

Here is what I have on my "DBA" database on every production server.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DatabaseAvailableSpace](

[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,

[DatabaseName] [nvarchar](50) NULL,

[TotalSpaceInMB] [int] NULL,

[UsedSpaceInMB] [int] NULL,

[FreeSpaceInMB] [int] NULL,

[TimeCollected] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL

)...

I would test it on a cloned server. Can your SAN do a snapshot or clone?

Scott, it's not the rows that hurt. It's the columns !!! 😀

Sometimes maintenance plan cleanup tasks stop clearing out old backups. Even though it all appears correct in the fields, for some reason it doesn't work properly.

I have found that just...