How to Become an Exceptional DBA

by Brad M. McGehee

A 2nd edition of Brad McGehee's popular "career guide" for DBAs, designed to help new and prospective DBAs find their feet in the profession, and to advise those more-experienced on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.

186 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Chris Lockhart · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would highly recommend this for people getting started in the world of database administration. While the book is written for SQL Server DBAs, the advice is generic enough to work for any RDBMS. I started an Assistant DBA about 20 years ago and made it up through Junior DBA, DBA, and then Lead DBA. This book offered a couple good reminds of things that I should be doing, but otherwise was not particularly valuable to me at this point in my career.

If the topics were presented as multiple choice questions, the answers would be common sense. However, for people getting started it may not occur to them to think about these topics to begin with, nor would they necessarily give certain items the priorities that they should.

I might even recommend that an organization gift this book to their "Accidental DBA" to whom they granted the position because that individual is particularly good with adjacent skills.

[Sandeep · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book related to DBA academic pathway.

[Rav · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite good book about how to take care about your (DBA) career. The book finishes with funny and memorable principle GOYA - Get Off Your Ass. "If you want to be an Exceptional DBA, you must get off your ass and make it happen."

[Christophe Addinquy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ma note de lecture complète en français ici

[Vatroslav Mileusnić · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's all just common sense, nothing new.

[Christophe Addinquy · Rating 3 out of 5]

ma note de lecture en français ici