About the Book

Senior DBAs have to know more than just SQL Server - they have to know storage, memory, operating systems, and more. This book gathers everything you need to know in one place, and each chapter is written by a SQL Server expert with extensive experience.

You'll learn about topics like latching, locking, memory architecture, extended events, and more.

Ugliest Job Description Contest

We got an email this morning from a company that wanted a DBA with experience managing >200TB databases.  The salary started at $60,000.  That provoked a series of laughs on Twitter, and it got us thinking – what would be the worst SQL Server job description out there?

Dig back into your past, and [...]