Just don't give Jeff a hammer please because he might break something. :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Hi Steve, great article. I think not only do DBA's need to learn to develop, but developers need to learn something of what a DBA do. You know, in 2012/2013 I was put on the spot as a developer to start administering our database. The company bought a new server for the database (we did not always have a dedicated server for our database because it was only 15 GB) and told me that is your server, that is your database now look after it and I had to suddenly learn a couple of things to administer this database. Well, this opened my eyes to better develop my applications, to look in a new way at the performance of my application. It changed the way I did T-SQL coding and now before I just say select * from table I put the query through it's paces to see how I can better this.

Next point of order, I think all IT professionals should learn something about each and every field of IT. It does not need to be full on training but at least something that can help you to understand about it.

I actually tried that and went to sit with our network/server it on a quiet day to learn something but I was summarily told to please learn it somewhere else.