Andy Warren

Whether you are a manager, want to be one, or just want to have a stronger team, this session should have something for you. We'll talk about some of the fundamentals of managing, but the interesting part is thinking about the places where the DBA team is a little different than other technical teams.

I'll bet most of us can reflect back to the early days of our career and recall a book or a presentation or some mentoring that really helped us figure things out. Even if it didn't explain everything, it made a difference.

One of the many measures of a first class data team is the ability to quickly install and configure SQL Server in a standardized and secure way. For a good team you're talking 15 minutes from the time the server is available and not much more if you're setting up an Availability Group.

For most DBA's and most companies changes to the database are done during either a maintenance window that allows some downtime or during a full planned outage. Doing it that way makes a lot of sense, you don't have to work about blocking or deadlocks or the code being out of sync with the database.

This moderated session features a panel of IT professionals with a wide range of experience ready to answer your questions about getting started and progressing in IT. Have a question about what you can do as a student to get ready?