Skills SQL Server DBA Database Administration
Performance tuning
/indexing/statistics
Query hints
SQL Profiler / server-side traces
Query plans / Actual execution plans
SQL 2008 Best Practices Analyzer
Performance Dashboard
Locks, blocking, and deadlocks
Capacity planning
Capacity planning
SQL Licencing
Security
user accounts
orphaned users
Failed logins
SQL Agent
SQL Agent
SQL Scheduled jobs
Alerts
Backups and restores
SQL Server database backups, differential, incremental backups, transaction log backups, simple vs full recovery models.
SQL Server database restores
Moving databases by detaching, moving, and reattaching their .mdf and .ldf files.
Data Migration
Source directories for source files
Staging tables
ETL
ELT
Fact, dimension tables
Trigger files
Header rows (in files).
Duplicate rows
File and data concatenation (joining of the content of one file with the next)
SQL Server upgrades
SQL Server version upgrades & downgrades
SQL Server versions
SQL Server versions:
- 2000
- 2005
- 2008
- 2012
- 2016
- 2017
Database mirroring and log shipping
Database mirroring and log shipping
Transactional Replication
Transactional Replication Log Reader Distribution database Merge replication
Synonyms
Synonyms
Other
Out of hours support
Logging
Testing
TEMPDB database
Windows clustering. Microsoft Cluster Server.