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Your first month as a DBA (database administrator) sets the foundation for the rest of your career. Most new DBAs spend it learning commands and counting databases. This free ebook shows you how to use those 30 days to build something stronger.

What's inside:

• How to run a technical discovery in three levels, from a high-level view of every server to the deep details you will plan for the next months.

• How to map the applications behind each database, find their owners, and agree on RPO and RTO (how much data the business can lose, and for how long a system can be down).

• How a database failure hurts the business, and how to explain risk in words managers understand.

• How to live and work well inside a company: your manager, stakeholders, processes, your first incident, and the ethics of seeing sensitive data.

• A week-by-week 30-day plan, ready-to-use SQL Server queries, and a template for your 30-day report.

Who it is for: new DBAs, accidental DBAs, developers and system administrators who just inherited databases, and anyone who wants to start a DBA job on the right foot.

About the author: I'm Alex Rosa. I became a DBA by accident in 2002, worked as a production DBA, and today I'm a cloud solution architect for Azure databases at Microsoft, with 30+ years in tech. This guide is what I wish someone had given me in my first month.

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