Professional Development

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? March 2023 Edition

Last Updated February 8, 2023

Is your company hiring for a database position as of March 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? February 2023 Edition

Last Updated February 8, 2023

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

It’s Valentine’s day – let’s do some matchmaking! Is your company hiring for a database position as of February 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job…

Announcing the 2023 Data Professional Salary Survey Results.

Last Updated January 2, 2023

Brent Ozar

Salary

Are your peers being paid more this year? Are they switching job roles? Are they planning on leaving their companies? To find out, I run a salary survey every year for folks in the database industry. Download the raw data here and slice & dice ’em to see what’s important to you. Salaries are on…

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? January 2023 Edition

Last Updated February 8, 2023

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Was your New Year’s resolution to get a new job? Heads up: the comments in this post are for you. Is your company hiring for a database position as of January 2023? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is…

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? December 2022 Edition

Last Updated November 23, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of December 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Are You Underpaid? Let’s Find Out: The 7th Annual Data Professional Salary Survey is Open.

Last Updated January 2, 2023

Brent Ozar

Salary

Whew. This is a crazy time, isn’t it? The aftermath of the pandemic is kicking in, and there are layoffs happening in Silicon Valley companies, but… the data profession is on fire. I don’t know anyone who’s been out of work for too long because companies are so desperate to get data help. So it’s time…

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? November 2022 Edition

Last Updated December 6, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of November 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? October 2022 Edition

Last Updated September 18, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of October 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Vegas Home Office Tour

Last Updated September 28, 2022

Brent Ozar

Home Office

I’ve been teaching online from home for years, and you’d probably think my office would keep growing and growing – but actually, my setup has gotten a lot smaller since the last time I blogged about it. I don’t really need space in order to work, and I kinda wanna incentivize myself to get out of the…

Community Tools Month: Choose Your Character

Last Updated September 5, 2022

Brent Ozar

Professional Development, Tools

This month on the blog is Community Tools Month, and I’m going to be talking about some of the most useful and influential tools out there. You can’t learn them all – *I* can’t learn them all – because there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do your work, keep your skills sharp,…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? September 2022 Edition

Last Updated October 4, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of September 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

[Video] 300-Level Guide to Career Internals at SQLBits

Last Updated August 10, 2022

Brent Ozar

Professional Development, Videos

You’re overwhelmed with choices: so many things you could learn, so many ways you could specialize in your career. Which one should you choose? What are the safe bets, and what are the risky bets? Should you be a contractor? A consultant? A freelancer? Specialize in the cloud, and if so, what products? There’s no…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? August 2022 Edition

Last Updated September 19, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of August 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? July 2022 Edition

Last Updated August 1, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of July 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Is Remote Work the New Normal for DBAs?

Last Updated June 28, 2022

Brent Ozar

Professional Development

An intriguing Office Hours question came in through my PollGab room. Anatoli asked, “Is remote work the new normal for DBAs? What are the pros / cons?” I happened to be teaching an online training class yesterday, so I asked my attendees where they were attending the class from. The vast majority – 27 out…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? June 2022 Edition

Last Updated August 1, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of June 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? May 2022 Edition

Last Updated June 1, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of May 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? April 2022 Edition

Last Updated May 2, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of April 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? March 2022 Edition

Last Updated March 28, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

Is your company hiring for a database position as of March 2022? Do you wanna work with the kinds of people who read this blog? Let’s set up some rapid networking here. If your company is hiring, leave a comment. The rules: Your comment must include the job title, and either a link to the full…

Who’s Hiring in the Database Community? February 2022 Edition

Last Updated March 12, 2022

Brent Ozar

Who's Hiring

The pandemic is causing so many folks to rethink what they do for a living, where they do it, who they do it for, and in light of yesterday’s salary survey results, how much money they earn doing it. It’s been really fulfilling to hear stories of employers who found candidates here, and candidates who…

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