rmcmanus05 (8/16/2012)
... provide me with a rough training/development guide to become a top/expert dba.
Database performance is what you want to tackle.
Be sure you understand execution plans and wait events. Be sure you can troubleshoot a particular query to the point you know exactly what it is doing and the ways you have to change its behavior.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.