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  • o103452 (9/16/2013)


    I'm a SQL Server DBA with 6 years experience.

    My job is entirely focused on SQL Server and I don't even have to touch other platforms or software.

    Learning Windows Admin would be a big plus, in my humble opinion. But, before we go down that road, what have you been doing with SQL Server? Are you a hardcore System DBA that rarely get's involved with applications and maybe has "average" knowledge of T-SQL? Are you an Application DBA that might not know very much about the administration of the system but knows the "black arts" of T-SQL? Are you a hybrid DBA with good experience in both of those DBA paths? Either way, how much of the security do you personally handle for your SQL Servers?

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)