I accidentally became a DBA over 20 years ago. My responsibilities are pretty much the same today as then:
1) Backup the database.
2) Move the backup file as far away from the data center as you possibly can.
3) If you have time, improve things, work on security, help developers tune their queries, create some indexes. But never forget 1 and 2.

However, the tools I use are slightly different today than they were 20+ years ago. What I did in Enterprise Manager can today be automated. Microsoft developed Sql Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. Chrissy LeMaire and a whole bunch of amazing individuals give us dbatools for free, VSCode is a thing, git repositories are literally just one click away etc.

In other words - if you used to be a DBA, you're now a developer.

In this session, we will go through some essential tools for DBAs:
- git
- vscode
- dbatools
- release pipelines