Opinion: If you're a DBA and want to retrain, what should you learn?
On our SQL Down Under email list today, someone asked:
My title is DBA but my job is more into SQL Developer, fixing data involved in applications. Do you think if I study Power BI that I can get a better job?
I get asked this sort of question regularly, particularly from traditional DBAs who see their roles disappearing.
The most basic answer is to adapt what you’re doing across to roles that are still in need like data modelling, query performance tuning, DB design in general, etc. However, I wanted to make some more broad recommendations for those considering something more radical.
2020-03-03