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Dbas are you dead or alive?

Review of eBook: A ZOMBIE’S SURVIVAL GUIDE IN A CHANGING DATABASE WORLD or Is the database administrator dead? Or alive and preparing for the future? Here’s some of the highlights…

Dbas are you faster than you think?

Book review: “The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives” by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Diamandis is a space-entrepreneur-turned-innovation-pioneer and…

Dbas don’t make a terrible mistake

Webinar review of Top 10 SQL Server Mistakes Made by DBAs by Kevin Kline. Kline serves as Principal Program Manager at SentryOne. Kline discusses 10 DBA mistakes made (yeah, I…

DBAs must lead without authority

Book review of “Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration” by Keith Ferrazzi. Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO…

DBAs were you eager to get started?

Article review of Dear Past Me on My First Day as a DBA by Pam Mooney. Mooney is a Senior Database Administrator who works for a financial institution in the…