Category Archives: DBA Career

DBA Tracy Hamlin Wins the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year Award

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Tracy Hamlin Tracy Hamlin (Twitter) has been voted as the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year by the SQL Server community. The annual awards program, hosted by SQL Server Central and sponsored by Red Gate Software, drew the largest number of community votes in its three-year history.

Tracy receives a trophy, full conference registration for the PASS Community Summit 2010 in Seattle, four nights’ accommodations, and $300 in travel expenses. Along with this year’s other finalists – John Burnette of Fidelity Information Services, Jonathan Kehayias of Tampa General Hospital, Ted Krueger of Pharmedium Services, Kevan Riley of Destinology, and Jorge Segarra of University Community Hospital – she receives a copy of Red Gate’s SQL Toolbelt.

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It is Great to Get Feedback From My Readers

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I get a lot of emails from people who read my blog, books, articles, and from people who have attended my presentations. I recently received the following email, which I particularly appreciated. While he has kind words to say, what really impressed me about this email was that the writer had taken my recommendations, and then used them as a checklist to follow. While I am not suggesting everyone follow my checklist, I commend the writer on taking the initiative to advance his career by following a specific plan. I think everyone who wants to control their career needs to create and follow a plan, whether it is one created by someone else, or created by themselves. Good work Rodrigo!

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Vote for the Exceptional DBA of the Year

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Starting today, you can vote for the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year. All of the nominations have been reviewed by a panel of judges, and six have been selected to be voted on by the SQL Server community. The winner will not only receive the recognition of being the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year, but will receive a full conference pass for the 2010 PASS Community Summit, most hotel and travel expenses, and a license of SQL Toolbelt.

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Travel Tips from an Intrepid Traveling DBA

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Red Oxx Air Boss Carry-On Recently, Buck Woody challenged myself, Paul Randal, and Brent Ozar to write a blog post on “How I Travel”. I have actually been thinking about blogging about this topic, but I wasn’t sure if anyone would be interested in hearing my travel tips, but since Buck put me up to this, I can blame him if you find this post boring. As I write this, I have purposely not read Buck’s, Paul’s or Brent’s blog posts, as I didn’t want to have their blog posts influence mine. So once I have finished writing this post, I will read theirs and find how many similarities, and differences, we have among our traveling styles. Hopefully I’ll be able to learn from them.

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Hawaii is Not Prometric Microsoft Certification Test Friendly

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While I was at TechEd last week, I got a 50% off Microsoft Certification test voucher that expires on June 30, 2010. Since I had not yet taken any SQL Server 2008 certification tests, I decided that this would be a good opportunity to save a few dollars and take the test. I have been procrastinating about taking the test, and the deadline on the 50% voucher was a good incentive to get it over with.

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