A Wandering Mind

So in a bit of personal news, I was recently moved into a new role at work, namely that of a full time database administrator. In my previous role I had quite a bit of interaction with my new team, and gathered a decent amount of knowledge around the workings of SQL Server, at least from the application interacting parts.

It’s been two weeks now, and I must say the change is startling. Already I’ve learned more than I have in the last six months in my old role. There is always something new to learn about SQL, be it the inner workings of the underlying engine, the new features such as compression, encryption, and partitioning (not a new feature, but made much better from what I can see), or digging into some new problem we are facing. I am kept constantly busy, with new demands being thrown at me at a pace even higher than the one I previously faced. A month ago I would have said that wasn’t possible; now I see that I was barely seeing the tip of the amount of effort these guys put into their job when I was working with them.

I’m blessed to have a team of seasoned veterans to work with. Combined they have more than 30 years of experience with SQL Server, networking, server administration, and other areas of IT. They have welcomed me in and made sure to teach me at every possible turn. I’m tremendously grateful to them, and can’t wait to continue learning.

As I do learn and grow into this new job, I thought it might be interesting to post my thoughts and “lessons learned” as time goes on. Who knows; maybe years from now when I myself am a grizzled old pro, I’ll look back on these musing and laugh.

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