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Brad McGehee's "How to Become an Exceptional DBA" (2nd ed.) offers you expert guidance to boost your DBA career. Check out Brad's advice on third-party tools:

By taking advantage of third-party tools, the DBA should be able to perform many routine tasks much faster than they could if performing them manually.

Brad McGehee, "How to Become an Exceptional DBA" (2nd ed.)
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SQL Backup achieved almost 90% data compression, and the reduction in per-GB data costs resulted in 100% ROI in just one month!

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By taking advantage of third-party tools, the DBA should be able to perform many routine tasks much faster than they could if performing them manually.

Brad McGehee, "How to Become an Exceptional DBA" (2nd ed.)