Tagged - Career Challenges

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, December 09, 2008 to Professional Development, social networking
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Got tagged again. Here are the details:

So here are the rules, please answer the question with at least two answers, once you have completed the answer please tag 2 people that you know to answer the questions as well. If you get tagged by this Quiz please let me know I would like to add all the results to the bottom of this blog so all the answers are in one place.
The Questions for this quiz…
What are the largest challenges that you have faced in your career and how did you overcome those?

1. OJT

I did not always used to be an ~~uberguru SQL ninja~~ expert googler. I learned SQL the hard way. I broke production stuff and learned how to it really quick. I didn’t always break but if it was broke, I had to figure out how to fix it fast. It was challenging but a good way to learn. I try to avoid that most of the time now. It is bad for customer satisfaction. :)

2. Evolving beyond an “enterprise manager DBA”

A really smart DBA way back when told me to get out of the GUI and learn how to administer through TSQL. Meh, EM is just generating the TSQL commands, right? It happened slowly over time. I think after I discovered sysprocesses and some of the other system tables, I realized that the GUI wasn’t all that. Picture giving execute permissions to a user on 50 stored procs through the GUI. Yup, I was that guy. Now, I highly recommend doing most everything through TSQL unless it is a couple clicks and even then know what SQL is running.

So who else has responded:

Who am I tagging?

Well, I’ll tag Kalen Delaney now that I know she reads my blog. :)

Louis Davidson(@drsql) since he squeeked by the first one.

Jeremiah Peschka(@peschkaj) since he was gloating about slipping through the cracks.

K. Brian Kelley (@kbriankelley)Just cause.