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Hey SQL Server DBAs: So you want to be a Data Scientist?

‘Confident Data Skills: Master the Fundamentals of Working with Data and Supercharge Your Career’ by Kirill Eremenko is a fascinating book on Data Science. This book makes great points, has…

Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform

This is a book review of ‘Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform: Implementing End-to-End Real-Time Data Pipelines: From Ingest to Machine Learning’ by Valliappa Lakshmanan. The book is an…

Hey SQL Server DBAs your gonna be extinct!

Ok SQL Server DBAs, so you might not be extinct unless you resist change. The SQL Server DBA title and responsibilities are certainly changing. Change is good. Right? I listened…

Low hanging SQL Server DBA Technical Debt

So I bumped into some articles on ‘Managing Technical Debt’. It reminded me of my final project before I retired in 2017: clean up SQL Server object technical debt. The…

The best SQL Server DBA Job Interview resource

The best SQL Server DBA Job Interview resource Brent Ozar has the best SQL Server DBA Job Interview resource called: DBA Job Interview Questions & Answers Kit. From the Brent…