Thursday, October 26, 2017

DBA Categories from Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar shared a post on the categories for a SQL Server DBA.
NOTE that these overlook things like BI or data scientist professionals, which are not usually considered part of the DBA span of work

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/09/hire-junior-dba/

The most interesting part, to me, was this chart:
(Credit - BrentOzarUnlimited.com)

I like the way he breaks this up to Database Developer, Development DBA, and Production DBA.
This seems to reflect the reality that I see in our own business as well as in some others.

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