change-management

What do you do when your fellow DBA is a ticking time-bomb of bad decisions, waiting to explode your production environment?

Microsoft recently updated their policies and recommendations for installing cumulative updates.

I learned to do Change Management from some really smart people. When I first became a DBA, I worked at a small software company where changes were released with increasing frequency over the years. Our team was really great at planning and deploying changes, because we constantly worked at improving.

You’re just getting started as a SQL Server Database Administrator – or you’re trying to get there.

Here’s a learning plan and links to free articles and scripts that will equip you to tackle the three most critical skills to for DBAs.