Voice of the DBA

As mentioned in my editorial, I plan on working through books this year for some extra learning. Certainly I’ll still use Pluralsight, websites, and more learn some things, but I want to get through at least 6 books this year and practice those skills. Six seems doable. Eight would be great. Twelve is unlikely and four is a failure. You can see this in my amazing, homegrown career skill thermometer.

In any case, my goal tracking will be looking at how I get through books. Here are the ones on my list for now, in no particular order. They’re just listed in the order I bought them during the CyberWeek sale.

• Pro SQL Server on Linux
• Advanced Data Analytics Using Python
• XML and JSON Recipes for SQL Server
• Learn Data Analysis with Python
• Beginning DAX with Power BI
• Azure and Xamarin Forms
• Practical Web Scraping for Data Science
• Pro Power BI Desktop
• Applied Natural Language Processing with Python 
• Pro SQL Server 2012 Relational Database Design and Implementation

I’m going to start with Pro SQL Server on Linux and go from there. I may add other books, or change mid year, depending on what I find as I go through these books.