A good starting ground for a DBA to progress - SQL Server Database Administrator NEXT Employee Review

3.0
15 Aug 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot with different areas of SQL databases from BI to OLTP. Great colleagues while i was there which i learnt a lot from. good tools in place to monitor systems.

Cons

callout and not enough back to satisfy using own time and was not enough people in the team to cover out of hours call out. very small pay for callout. old systems and a lot of known issues which were not fixed when teams were aware of the bugs. wasting time investigating for nothing to happen. low salary in market. no power over teams decisions, a DBA should be the gatekeeper but development teams had more say than the actual DBA.

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