So you want to be a freelance DBA, DBA consultant or DBA Gig worker?
Many, many great points and key questions asked and answered in a webcast by Kendra Little at SQLWorkbooks.com: ‘Dear SQL DBA: I Want to Work for Myself‘ 2 webinar quotes…
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…