Monday, July 11, 2016

[UPDATED] Training To-Do List for New DBA

Are you an entry-level DBA, or looking to make the career switch? Feel like you are looking up from the bottom of a very tall ladder? Don't have much of a budget for training?

Here's a list of resources I'd recommend [updated in July 2023], in no particular order. Each of these are action-oriented tasks that I would (and have) assigned to a new-to-the-job junior DBA on my team.

Got additions and suggestions? Please add them to the comments in this blog post.

UPDATE: 9/30/2019 - new bit to replace MVA, add PASStv
UPDATE: 7/30/2023 - refreshed sources and links

6 comments:

Brian said...

Thanks Dude. I was a pass member, but was not taking advantage of all they have to offer. Appreciate the post.

Konstantin said...

Thanks for useful links, add codecadeny to my list of links: https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit#sql-server-web-resources

Unknown said...

A new training resource that has appeared on the horizon and which is growing at a ridiculously rapid rate, is the MOOC. You can get sign up for some good courses at:
- Edx - https://www.edx.org/
- Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/
- Udacity - https://www.udacity.com/

There's also a lot of free or cheap courses on Udemy - https://www.udemy.com/courses/

Unknown said...

Also SQLBits is a great site on which you can view a whole heap of videos relating to all aspects of SQL Server for free:

https://sqlbits.com/default.aspx

Click on either speaker or event in left-hand column

Anonymous said...

Looking forward to the my second Baton Rouge SQL SATURDAY!

Anon said...

Just want to share old link https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/database-fundamentals-8243 not available, replaced with new Azure SQL Database content. It can still be found here: https://channel9.msdn.com/series/dbfundamentals/