Category: Soft Skills

Kendra Little gives her thoughts on how to identify a good DBA team:

What I learned was not to judge a team by their SQL Server. Some configurations may look problematic, but make a lot more sense when I talk to the team and dig into problems they’re facing.

For instance, there’ve been many times when a team was facing a performance issue, and at first glance their SQL Server looked stupidly underprovisioned in terms of memory. Upon digging into the problem I found that adding more memory wouldn’t solve their particular problem. One size doesn’t usually fit all.

Read on for hints and thoughts.

Andy Mallon hunts the most dangerous of creatures:  man job.

Finding a new job is hard. At every turn, it’s a lot of work: finding a job, interviewing, negotiating. I don’t know anyone who likes doing it. I do know lots of people who struggle with various parts of the process.

I want to share my experience, my thoughts, and my opinions. Hopefully, you can learn from my experience (good and bad). By sharing my experience, hopefully I can make life a little bit easier on you the next time you’re job hunting.

Definitely looking forward to this series.