Becoming a Multiplatform DBA
I wonder if I had started my career as a PostgreSQL DBA or MongoDB DBA, would it be easier for me to accept the rapid growth and the variety of data storage solutions and our new reality of the Polyglot persistence? Polyglot is the term that came from the Ancient Greek meaning speaking many languages. Polyglot persistence is about storing your data not only inside SQL Server but in multiple data storage technologies. Whatever suits better your application needs or sometimes even single application component. Be prepared that tomorrow or next month one of developers will come up with some "other database" which (they will be 100% confident) will serve their application needs better. In some situations they might be right. My own first natural reaction to those situations is to immediately start searching for "why not" arguments. To keep them in SQL Server. These days I try my best to hold this reaction and allow them to try. If it will work out - everyo