1. Resources for the New or Accidental DBA
Thomas Strike
@SQLTom
Blog - TomStrike.com

2. Who Am I? Tech with 20 years experience in various industries and jobs
DBA for a little over a year
Former SharePoint Change Engineer at Microsoft
Former Windows Server Admin at IBM
Book and Coffee Lover
Now a SQLSaturday Speaker

3. Agenda for the Day
Share the resources that I used to get my current job and keep it
Get newer people started networking with others in the community
Help you with the “next step” in your careers no natter where you’re at now

4. SQL Server Blog
Free Developer edition of SQL Server Three months of Pluralsight for free One year of Azure credits

5. PASS - The Professional Association of SQL Server
- Home page for PASS
Session recordings
Virtual chapters have monthly sessions on many different subjects
Regional mentors available in many different subjects
Great networking opportunities

6. PluralSight
PluralSight.com has thousands of videos covering the entire gamut of computer technology.
SQLSkills owners and employees all regularly contribute SQL Server content that normally costs thousands of dollars to get in person. (Not that it’s not worthwhile to go to their in-person classes).
Don Jones and Adam Bertram regularly contribute PowerShell videos.
Scores of other skilled technologists, including many Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, have videos on the site.

7. SQLServercentral.com SQL Stairways
Stairway to T-SQL DML - Greg Larsen (recommended by Kalen Delaney)
Stairway to T-SQL: Beyond the Basics - Greg Larsen
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Richard Waymire
Stairway to SQL PowerShell - Ben Miller
Stairway to SQL Server Security - Don Kiely
Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization – Dave Klee

8. Don Jones and Manning.com
Learn SQL Server in a Month of Lunches
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches
Infrastructure beyond just SQL Server depknowledge depending on your specialty
Learn Active Directory in a Month of Lunches – Richard Siddaway
Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches – Don Jones
Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches – Jason C. Helmick

9. SQLSkills
The Accidental DBA Series – 30 days of keeping the SQL Server lights on
SQL Server Extended Event a Day Series
Paul Randall bi-weekly newsletter
Whitepapers, Demo Scripts, Sample Databases, MCM reading list and videos
Many free tools

10. The Midnight DBAs – Sean & Jen Mccown
DBA Roadmap – information on formatting your resume, interviewing, job hunting, and even how to study. As well as critiquing your resume before you send it out
Free training in PowerShell, T-SQL, and Backup/Restore of databases
Package of tools named Minion – If you consider Ola’s scripts to be the Gold standard, Minion is now the Platinum standard
Weekly webshow that covers technical issues, community activities, and NSFW fun
Sean was a French chef and is adding a series of cooking videos

11. Brent Ozar Unlimited http://www.brentozar.com
Awesome site for helping to introduce you to the SQL Server Community
Excellent downloadable book on using Twitter
All of the books recommended on this site are worth reading, but “The Whuffie Factor” by Tara Hunt is particularly useful
Weekly Q & A where you can ask about problems you’re having, lots of fun too

12. School/Education Sites
EDX.org – Many MS specific courses (free or you can get a verified certificate for $29.00 to $99.00 which can be exported to your LinkedIn account)
Udemy.org – Over 200 classes if you search for “SQL” and most are below $40.00
Khan Academy – Intro to SQL: Querying & Managing Data and many others
- excellent resources for SQL
- Great beginner courses
– Many great videos from some of the best SQL Server people in the world
- Great free videos, beginner to advanced, on Microsoft technologies

13. Recommended Books
Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration – Grant Fritchey
Microsoft SQL Server 2012: A Beginner’s Guide – Dusan Petkovic
Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA – Jonathan Kehayias and Ted Kruger
Many free books from Red-Gate.com, including Jonathan & Ted’s book above
The Whuffie Factor – Tara Hunt
DBA Survivor – Thomas LaRock

14. Skills Needed To Take the Next Steps …Start now
The skills necessary to succeed in navigating the waters of DBAdom

15. My Contact Information
Stacy Hein or
@SQLStacy

16. Who Am I? 20 years IT experience
15 years of SQL Server experience Version 6.5 through now
Worked in most industries and sizes of companies
Consulting experience with several companies
Worked as an Escalation Engineer for the SharePoint 365 Team at Microsoft
Masters of Science Cybersecurity from Excelsior College

17. PowerShell Excellent for automating processes
“Learn PowerShell or the phrase ‘Would you like fries with that?’” – Don Jones
Ed Wilson The Scripting Guy

18. Project Management www.pmi.org
Excellent resource for the formal project management process.
Recommend getting A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) — Fifth Edition and Successful Project Management (Gido and Clements)

19. Effective Communication Skills
Considerations
Level of person talking to (CEO, PM, manager, administrator, fellow DBA, or user)
Technical knowledge of that person
Relevance
The basic idea is what information is relevant to that person
Higher level generally means address outcomes, cost, timing, etc. Is the 50,000 foot view.
Forbes article on Why Communication Is Today's Most Important Skill

20. Auditing
Auditing is essential for healthy environment. Continuous regular auditing exposes issues that can be exploited by hackers or cause performance issues downline.
PowerShell is excellent for this.
SQL Security Audit example
Idera offers several tools
SQLSentry offers several tools

21. Risk Analysis Understand the different types and processes for RA
Only true way to measure value of assets (hardware, software, data)
There is software and procedures for performing RA
Government Tool and Procedures - Security Risk Assessment
Recommend taking a class on Risk Assessment

22. Compliance Issues
HIPAA or
ITAR on the U.S. State Dept. Website
EAR on the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Website
Sarbanes Oxley on the Securities and Exchange Commission Website
ISO 27001Information Security Management

23. Compliance Issues
ISO Cloud Security
ISO27018 Cloud Privacy
You may need to be aware of “Safe Harbor Laws”

24. Cloud Computing It’s here and it’s not going anywhere.
“The cloud services companies of all sizes…The cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.” Marc Benioff - CEO - Salesforce.com
“Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.” Steve Balmer – CEO Microsoft
Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

25. SQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR)
Understand concepts of setting them up and troubleshooting them
SQL Skills
Alan Hirt
Extremely important for the Senior DBA to know
Understand different scenarios and technologies of HADR.

26. Networking
Internally – server admins, storage admins, and managers of other teams.
The importance of getting to know the other professionals you work with cannot be understated.
Externally – The SQL Community (Local PASS, SQL Summit, SQL Saturdays, blogs, web sites, etc.)
These events lead to contacts/resources that can assist with issues.
Networking creates a resource pool for you to draw from when you need it.

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