April 11, 2015 at 4:13 pm
For most of my career ive been a DBA, often as a consultant, going in to do performance tuning and put out fires that teams cant figure out ( or just dont want to put in the effort). It was stressful, high pressure work with oncall, weekend work for releases, people screaming at the first sign of performance issues. I enjoyed the work but oncall, and constant shouting and blaming the database did start to grate on me towards the end.
8 months ago i got the opportunity to try my hand in a different yet related area, BI Developer. This role meant getting to play with things like tabular, SSRS, warehouse design, SSIS etc etc.
The role is in a company who never had an IT dept so they are not quite sure how IT works oudside of fixing laptops and printers, and so things are very slow moving.
I have learned a lot, and im pretty sure that over the next year there will be a ton to learn.
The funny thing though is the pace is getting to me. Its quite slow. I can get my dev work done pretty quickly, which leaves time for study. To vary it up a bit I decided to do some DBA work and although there is lots to do, they dont really want it done! e.g. when i started asking for RPO and RTO for various systems the answers i got were "if it goes down we can work in excel or on paper". Basically as the company is not profit driven, a slow report is not a big deal or an app down for a day is not seen as terrible.
I would like to know if anyone else has found that they missed a super busy workplace, even if the quality of life outside work improved?
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