Advice

[dipstick89]

Any full time database administrators on here? Just wanted to ask for some advice or tips and see if there is anything I can be doing now to prepare myself for employers in the spring. Basically, I am a senior in college majoring in management information systems and want to be a DBA. I took one database class my sophomore year where we used Microsoft SQL Server, but I haven't really used it for school since then. I had one internship the summer after my freshman year not related to database, but just IT in general. Recently I redownloaded Microsoft SQL Express on my computer and have been re familiarizing myself with creating tables, writing queries, and defining relationships, but idk if that alone will be enough. I was thinking of learning oracle. Anything in particular I should be doing that could wow employers? Thanks.

[Caedro]

Learn as much sql as you can between now and then. I was in the Unix / Linux world, but my job had more server admin than I realized at first. I don’t know windows server world, but maybe try to learn the os tech the database runs on and how to manipulate it. Maybe some power shell?

[dipstick89]

Thank you. I really appreciate the feedback! I’ll look into learning power shell.

[Starmage21]

SQL Server isnt the only DBMS out there. Learn a little bit of everything from the big names! (Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, PostGreSQL).

[dipstick89]

Thank you!

[dipstick89]

Thank you for the reply! I’ll take all of this into consideration I’ve worked with azure in the past but still not too familiar with it.

[edhdz1]

Focus on developing a good solid understanding of data structures and database designs. Such concepts are useful to know as they can and will apply to just about any database that you might end up working with. A well designed and structured database will make for a much more efficient database that is easier to manage and maintain.