krowley (8/29/2011)
I am working on moving from being a generalist to being a specialist in SQL Server and keep looking for the best course of study to take me there. If there was a simple well laid out path, even one that was 2000 pages long, this would be very helpful for me and others like me.
2000's a bit on the low side. Maybe 20000...
http://www.sqlskills.com/T_MCMVideos.asp
http://www.sqlskills.com/MCM.asp
40+ hours of video and a long list of blogs and books (and that's just the admin side)
Edit: oh and a few hundred hours of practice too.
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