What is your preferred role when working with databases?
- Do you want to be the guru with all the different techniques for database design and optimization.
- Do you want to be the optimization wizard able to get the right set of indexes or optimize query performance?
- Do you want to be the database manager making sure people have only the access they need to get their job done.
- How about the disaster recovery professional, making sure the databases are available at all times?
- Perhaps you prefer using the ancillary tools specializing in reporting or Enterprise Transform and Load (ETL) processes.
- Or maybe you prefer to work in the data mining design, implementation, optimization, or management
- Perhaps you are a developer at heart, but you find yourself working with SQL because you have to store you data somewhere
- Maybe you simply manage your companies resources, but need to keep up to date on the different capabilities available, or the cost for deployment
If you’ve been around software for even a little time you have probably been exposed to many of these different roles. You most likely perform one or more simply to keep moving forward with your own work. But which one(s) are really of interest to you? Which ones will be a continuing role worth your effort to master? How are you going to get the expertise you need to exceed in your desired roles?
You already have a great asset moving you forward in SSWUG. I didn’t start out this stream of consciousness as an advertisement for SSWUG. However, my thoughts turn immediately to the vast amount of online virtual training available to you at a cost that is less than many single one day courses I find in my inbox.
What is your opinion of the SSWUG virtual training? Have you taken advantage of the opportunity yet? Tell me about it here or by email to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben