ilanham (3/26/2012)
I have a predicament: I work as a Windows sysadmin, and I watch over a database server. By that, I mean I make sure it's running, I make sure apps can still connect to it, and not much traffic happening.
Does that DB server have a DBA? If not, suggest to your boss that you start looking at the DB side of the box in addition to the rest of your sysadmin work. Voilà, you're a DBA (though that is a hard way of doing things with no one to learn from). Do that for a year and you can legitimately put 1 year of DBA experience on the CV
If you do go that way, there's a huge amount of learning to be done and it's entirely your responsibility to make sure that you do it.
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