Microsoft’s SQL Server platform has been on a roll lately, with its smooth and feature-rich SQL 2016 release gaining accolades across the industry, including the DBMS of the Year award from db-engines.com. The company’s increased focus on cloud, strong BI tool set, impressive functionality and emerging cross-platform capability with SQL on Linux has made this RDBMS a staple of database shops around the world.
With SQL Server’s increased stature, the role of the SQL Server database administrator (DBA) is shifting, and the days of playing second fiddle to other platform DBAs are coming to an end.
