Hi team, I want to become a DBA so please suggest me some tips to be...

pushpendu B

Hey sir/Madam I am Rahul Pushpendu Bhaskar and Now I am working in IT industry as a .Net Developer But my desire to work in DBA field so please tell me some tips to become a DBA .... thanks & regards... Rahul .

Rajesh R Subramanian

Do not use bold font face. DBAs don't do that! EVER!
Read books on DB administration. Start out at novice level, do some hands on exercises, understand the nuances and move up your way.
Seek help from someone whom you know is at a position (DBA in your case). They might guide you.

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

The Digital Worm

This is not the correct place, post here[^]

WJFK (Write Just for Kicks)

Rajesh R Subramanian

Why? Only CCC's are allowed here? He's asking tips to become a database administrator. Yeah, he's used bold font face, but I've already bitten him for that. But otherwise, I'm sure it's a fairly acceptable topic in the lounge.

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

Henry Minute

Register for sites/newsletters such as SqlServerCentral[^] or MSSqlTips[^] (they are both for MS SqlServer, but there will be similar ones for whichever system you are interested in). They often have articles and typical interview questions which you can use to form the basis of a self study program.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

Johnny J

Actually, professional questions aren't quite right for the Lounge. I think they would be best placed here[^].

Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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MecAlex

Apply same procedure on DBA what you had applied on .Net ;) Simple :)

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Smithers Jones

Maybe I am mistaken, but wouldn't be the Work & Training Issues-forum[^] be the most appropriate place for such a question?

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Henry Minute

Quite right.:thumbsup:

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

OriginalGriff

Sandeep sent him here http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/190421/Hi-team-I-want-to-become-a-DBA-so-please-suggest-m.aspx[^] after he posted this as a Q&A this morning. The OP appears to have voted him down for it, but there you go...

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Rage

Do you have a DBA in your company ? Then I recommend poison on the keyboard keys.

Johnny J

Watch it - I gave the same suggestion and got downvoted for the trouble... :sigh:

Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932

Nagy Vilmos

0. Bold is bad. 1. No TG's here 2. Try the DB forum 3. Eat more bacon

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

R Giskard Reventlov

Start here[^].

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me

Rage

dummies.com :laugh:

Nish Nishant

If you had gone through recent Lounge threads, you'd probably have had second thoughts about asking career advice here. :rolleyes:

Regards, Nish

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Mark_Wallace

It's easy. Just write on your CV that you've got 10 years experience each with Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, Foxpro, and Access, learn a few buzzwords, and send it to every employer who requires a DBA. That's what most of the 20-25-year-old applicants I interview seem to do, anyway.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

V 0

Don't worry too much about the down votes. Other forums would be more correct, but we're all humans and make mistakes and others are humans that don't have patience with those that make mistakes :-). To answer your question, personally I believe the best way to become dba is get certified in most cases this will be Oracle or SQL Server (mostly it is or one or the other, not both). In both cases you'll also need a good knowledge of OS systems (Linux/Unix or Windows), virtualization etc... Get some advice from people you know, read books, follow courses if possible and take the exams. hope this helps.

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Henry Minute

As if to reinforce my earlier post, today's MSSqlTips Newsletter has this[^] article, that you may find useful.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

Nagy Vilmos

Don't laugh, they've got some good books... ... if you're TAPS

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)