After being tagged to blog my Professional New Years Resolutions late last year, I made getting certified as my first one. Today I bit the bullet and took the 70-431 test. I took about an hour to complete the 35 trivia (multiple choice) and 12 simulations. I was a little shocked when the screen displayed 1000/1000 for my score. The family and I celebrated big time. We went to Moe’s Southwest Grill and then went to the mall so the kid could use the Christmas money that was burning a hole in their pocket. So I’m going to take the rest of the month off, then start studying for the next one. Maybe the 70-432…
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Professional New Year’s Resolutions
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Well, I’ve been tagged. SQLBatman has tagged me to post my New Years Resolutions. I have so much room for professional development I’m not sure where to start. So I’ll start with some pain points. So here they are:
1. Get Certified. I have been in the IT business for over 10 years and have not taken any certification exams since I was a NetWare 4.0 admin. Since I think I’ll be hanging out in the database world for the foreseeable future, I think I should prove my skills.
2. Learn to effectively use profiler. I hate how much time I spend setting up a trace because I really don’t know what I’m looking for I also need to increase my experience at reading traces to make correct resolutions to issues faster.
3. Be able to resolve some of the basic, recuring Oracle issues I get paged with and must pass off to our Oracle DBAs. I share on-call with our Oracle & Sybase DBAs. I feel so guilty to have to call them for any Oracle log I get. One has been a DBA for 10 years and the other 30 years (going all the way back to our mainframe days) they can resolve out MSSQL logs most of the time without my assistance, I need to return the favor.
4. Learn SQL Server Analysis Services. Judging from the keynotes at SQLPass, SSAS will have a much larger footprint during 2009. I need to know how to troubleshoot and support it.
So it’s my turn to share the love. I, like SQLBatman, do not know how has been blessed with this task.
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