The Voice of the DBA Becoming a DBA

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Jun 22, 2009 Becoming a DBA

Someone wrote in recently and asked me how they could become a DBA. I'm sure many of you had seen similar posts, but what stood out about this one was that this person said they'd been a junior DBA and learning about SQL Server. They wondered what they needed to do to be ready to be the DBA for a company.

That seemed like a hard question to me. How do you know when someone is ready to be a DBA? There's no test to take, no definite measure. As many people have pointed out, we aren't even likely to agree on what a DBA is, much less what skills they need to have. Let me say that I'm talking about being a DBA in skill, not title. Plenty of people get stuck with the title and have no idea what they're doing.

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