• Depends on the type of DBA, the company's needs and roles and the DBA's interests.

    Someone who's more a developer DBA will probably want to know .net better, someone who's more a 'systems' dba (DBA cross sysadmin) probably needs windows server.

    There's no one path and no learning is ever wasted.

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