• Titles are meaningless. My current title is "Technical Lead". Doesn't tell you a damn thing about the technologies I work with.

    Microsoft doesn't set titles, they create technology.

    The DBA job (and by this I mean pure DBA, jobs, backups, provisioning, monitoring) is changing. Cloud, hybrid, document databases, relational databases, etc, etc, etc. Keep up to date with the way the wind is blowing, and get familiar with everything around the DBA job, as well as the DBA job itself.

    Or, if your passion lies elsewhere, move to a different part of the field.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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