http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Miscellaneous, Career posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Are you taking care of yourself as an IT professional? We try to cover all aspects of your SQL Server career here, not just the technical stuff. Longtime SQL Server guru Michael Coles brings us some health tips in an interview with Dr. Jerry Sanders http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3023/2008/05/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3023/Most of us DBAs have worked on our career to get where we are. A DBA is usually a second or third step in IT and we we've looked to advance our understanding of technology. Jeffrey Yao now brings us a new level of database work to which we may aspire. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2989/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2989/Everyone has a set of handy utilities and tools that they use with their SQL Server, but sometimes convincing an employer to purchase tools is hard. Longtime DBA David Bird brings us a list of the tools he likes to use and are FREE. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2959/2008/04/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2959/Dice.com recently completed a salary survey for 2007. If you didn't participate, Steve Jones summarizes the results for DBAs. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2935/2008/03/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2935/As a SQL Server DBA or developer, how do you measure the success of your projects? What about your users? Here is an interesting look by Janet Wong at a few of her projects and how their success was perceived. See if any of your experiences are similar. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2892/2008/02/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2892/What makes a good manager? In response to a recent thread, Janet Wong takes us through some of the good and bad managers she's had during her career and talks about the problems today with technical managers. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2768/2007/12/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2768/We often see ways to improve your career, but there's a flip side as well. In the spirit of our "worst practices" series, Steve Jones takes a look at ten skills that could cost you your job if you can't perform them. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/2007/12/03http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/The battle between developers and DBAs can be a rough one at times. However DBAs are often outnumbered by developers and need to be sure they fit in. DBA Janet Wong brings us one of her experiences about how you can better go with the flow. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2740/2007/11/29http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2740/Another little bit of career advice, this time from longtime author Jeffrey Yao who gives you some pointeres on what you should know for your next job interview. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/surviveasqlserverdbatechnicalinterview/2486/2007/10/12http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/surviveasqlserverdbatechnicalinterview/2486/Continuing with his series on professional development, Andy Warren takes a look at funding some of your career growth and why it pays to invest in yourself. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2603/2007/09/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2603/As autumn approaches, Patrick Index produces his ten hot chestnuts for IT Contractors like himself, with a jaundiced 'contractor's-eye view'. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3249/2007/09/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3249/When IT starts to stand for 'Implement This', even the keenest DBA begins to dream of farming Alpacas as a career-change...and we ask our readers how they would have solved the DBA's dilemma. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3206/2007/09/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/3206/Ensuring that our careers grow is something that each of us must take charge of and Andy Warren brings us one of the ways in which you can do this: create a plan. Andy talks about how you can structure a plan at different stages of your career. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3134/2007/08/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3134/Most of us DBAs have worked on our career to get where we are. A DBA is usually a second or third step in IT and we we've looked to advance our understanding of technology. Jeffrey Yao now brings us a new level of database work to which we may aspire. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2989/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2989/Are you taking care of yourself as an IT professional? We try to cover all aspects of your SQL Server career here, not just the technical stuff. Longtime SQL Server guru Michael Coles brings us some health tips in an interview with Dr. Jerry Sanders http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3023/2008/05/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/3023/Everyone has a set of handy utilities and tools that they use with their SQL Server, but sometimes convincing an employer to purchase tools is hard. Longtime DBA David Bird brings us a list of the tools he likes to use and are FREE. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2959/2008/04/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2959/Working in the corporate world can be a challenge and most of us muddle through our careers without really having any formal training. Andy Warren has spent time proactively working on his career and learned a great many tips and tricks for succeeeding as an employee and a manager. He brings us a few book reviews that might help you cope with the strange corporate world in which so many of us work. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2998/2007/05/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2998/Phil Factor's describes his first encounter with the "light arms" (low calibre, small bore, needed to be fired).http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2981/2007/05/11http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2981/Steve Jones is in Seattle for the first Microsoft BI Conference and offers some thoughts on the event. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2994/2007/05/10http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2994/As a SQL Server DBA or developer, how do you measure the success of your projects? What about your users? Here is an interesting look by Janet Wong at a few of her projects and how their success was perceived. See if any of your experiences are similar. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2892/2008/02/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2892/We often see ways to improve your career, but there's a flip side as well. In the spirit of our "worst practices" series, Steve Jones takes a look at ten skills that could cost you your job if you can't perform them. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/2007/12/03http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/Dice.com recently completed a salary survey for 2007. If you didn't participate, Steve Jones summarizes the results for DBAs. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2935/2008/03/24http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2935/The 2007 PASS Summit is coming up in September and you can register early and save now, but is it worth going? Longtime author and successful DBA Don Peterson brings us a few thoughts on last year's Summit and the benefits of attending. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2858/2007/02/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2858/What makes a good manager? In response to a recent thread, Janet Wong takes us through some of the good and bad managers she's had during her career and talks about the problems today with technical managers. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2768/2007/12/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2768/The battle between developers and DBAs can be a rough one at times. However DBAs are often outnumbered by developers and need to be sure they fit in. DBA Janet Wong brings us one of her experiences about how you can better go with the flow. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2740/2007/11/29http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2740/We often see ways to improve your career, but there's a flip side as well. In the spirit of our "worst practices" series, Steve Jones takes a look at ten skills that could cost you your job if you can't perform them. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/2007/12/03http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2744/Most of us don't get to make hiring decisions, whether we're interviewing or helping to interview someone. However we often have input on new employees. Steve Jones brings us some thoughts on helping to make the hiring decision. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2686/2006/11/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2686/Damon Armstrong learned the hard way about the consequences of not having a clearly defined project scope or work contracthttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2655/2006/10/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/2655/Retrieving the identity value from an inserted row should be a very simple task. But based on his survey at TechEd 2005 as well as some recent interviews, Andy Warren points out some of the wrong answers and turmoils he has faced in getting this question answered. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/checkyoursqlserveridentity/1993/2006/10/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/checkyoursqlserveridentity/1993/Oracle and SQL Server are both database platforms built on SQL, but there are vast differences between them. Janet Wong brings us a tale of her experiences in moving from Oracle to SQL Server as a developer. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2646/2006/10/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/2646/