0What is the future prospect of a career in MS SQL Server?
You need to get more specific. Are you talking about being a DBA, designing databases, or getting a job with Microsoft on the SQL Server team? However, I don’t think that any of these options would be a career limiting decision. Also, I don’t see any reason to assume that SQL Server is going away any time soon. Here are some specifics on these three choices:
DBA: SQL Server DBAs certainly do require some very product specific knowledge, but much of the knowledge of managing one Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) will transfer to other RDBMS products (Oracle, Sybase, etc.).
Designing databases: If you are designing relational database schemas (writing DDL) then a good 95% of your knowledge would be transferable to other databases (I’ve worked with at least a dozen different RDBMS products over my career and as the SQL DDL and DML standards improve, the more similar the products get to one another).
Working at Microsoft on SS: The knowledge that you gain while working on this product will obviously be mostly general programming experience. And since Microsoft is a big company if SQL Server was killed there would undoubtedly be a large number of other positions you could move into.
MS SQL Server DBA Training:
Overview:
Database Administrators (DBAs) are responsible for the design, implementation, support and maintenance of computerized databases in today’s organizations. The role also includes architecting, building and scaling databases for future data growth and capacity. They are also responsible for security, performance and availability of data to users and customers. .
All the above tasks are performed with the help of a Database Management System (DBMS) and among the most widely used DBMS across the world today is the Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform.
Salaries and Job Growth:
DBAs play an important and responsible role in every company’s Information Technology (IT) department. DBAs are also very well paid and the average annual salary is more than $100,000 in the USA.
