Craig-315134 (5/9/2011)
Good article, Craig, thank you.I do have what I hope isn't a 'stupid question', please. To be a competent SQL Server DBA, how good should my T-SQL skills be?
For practicality, I recommend that you at least be better than the weakest developer at your work. Otherwise you are almost certain to be held in contempt by the devs - especially when they have company policies that FORCE them to come to you for various tasks. They will be saying in their heads "wtf do I have to waste my time going to this idiot when I could do it 10x faster, and right the first time, myself?".
This is just my own experience with devs at a couple of locations - possibly it is not representative - others with more experience could speak to that.
-sff