Your article was very good.

I am newbie when it comes to being a DBA. My experience of databases has been extracts from Oracle into MS Access for reporting purpose. My strengths are more in reporting than actual DBA work, but would like to be more proficient at being a DBA. I have been on my current job for two years maintaining two production databases. The vendors have setup and configured the databases to backup nightly and the net work manager performs further backups on the total network. It is fortunate that I am able to learn on the job but have reach a fork in the road. I started with SQL Server 2K but now in the process of migrating databases to SQL Server 2K5. For now I am relying the vendor to keep the database running, but would like to move this responsibility more to myself. I understand SQL but having a hard of knowing where to begin as being a DBA for SQL Server.

What advice does anyone have?