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I work with databases for a living.
I teach people, and I help them via consulting.
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For T-SQL Tuesday #100, Adam Machanic's challenge for SQL bloggers was to predict what databases would be like 100 months from then.
Well, guess what: that's coming up this July!
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Can I be honest with you for a second?
It makes my skin crawl when I hear database people smugly answer a question with "It depends!"
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tl;dr - It's easier because I've always chosen to run SQL Server VMs, so it was easier for me to switch than you might expect - but if you're a Microsoft IT pro, I don't recommend switching.
Now for the long version.
After hearing the same dire news from several of my consulting friends, I put a poll up on LinkedIn:
About half of the consultants out there are having a tougher time bringing in new clients than they have in the past.
When I first started teaching database sessions at conferences, I noticed a pattern.
When I finished the session, closed PowerPoint, and thanked everyone for attending, a big queue of attendees would instantly start forming at the podium. People would line up to ask private questions, one at a time.
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The results are in! You can download the raw data in Excel for all 10 years and do some slicing and dicing to find out whether you're underpaid, overpaid, or what it looks like for folks who are out there looking for work. This year, I added a couple of new items to the survey…
You're busy, so I'll keep this short.
Several months from now, you're gonna have a salary review. Your manager is going to ask what you've been up to, and you're not going to have a lot of great answers. Copilot isn't tracking your successes for you.
In this year's data professional salary survey, I added a new response type for folks who are unemployed and looking for data work. The survey is still in progress, but you can view the data as it's coming in, and I wanted to take a few minutes to read through the responses of folks who are unemployed.
Ever wonder what it takes to do this stuff behind the scenes? I'll show you.
If you're thinking about getting started with live streaming or training videos, don't be intimidated by this setup. There's a lot of gear involved, but it's because I've been doing this for years, and I've accumulated a lot of gear that works well for me. You can start with much less gear!
You've got a good job, and some spare time. You're thinking about giving back to the community by blogging, presenting, live streaming, or working on Github projects - and you'd like to make your next job search easier. Let's talk about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ3TuMM4cEQ
One of my readers asked me to give a 30-minute talk to their company's internal employees discussing the job market at large. The target audience was technical people of all disciplines - not just database administrators, but all kinds of people who worked with technology.
My goal with the talk was to help people think about lots of possible next-steps in their career journey. I wanted to show how the skills they've already developed might be useful in jobs they hadn't thought about before.
We've been running our annual Data Professional Salary Survey for almost a decade, and I was really curious to see what the results would hold this year. How would inflation and layoffs impact the database world? Download the raw data here and slice & dice it to see what’s important to you. Here's what I found.
