Alan.B (4/28/2016)
Yet Another DBA (4/27/2016)
jeff.mason (4/26/2016)
Microsoft has made SQL Server so big that even "generalists" are usually "specialists". I know of few people who are experts in the DB engine, AND SSAS, AND SSIS, AND SSRS, as well as all of the other ancillary technologies MS has bolted into the product -- just too much technology to become a master at. You might be a generalist across the DB engine, but you also have specialized in the DB engine as opposed to reports, or ETL, etc.....Doesn't stop employers from advertising that they need all the skills and extra.
I get emails about jobs with where they want people who just don't exist. Who would want them if they did exist? Anyone who is an expert at the whole BI stack, T-SQL, MDX, Sharepoint, C#, AWS and Python can't be any fun to work with. Someone like that doesn't need a job, they need to go to a baseball game.
They may advertise it like that or it may be interpreted as that, but I think most are just looking for some of those skills and experiences. At least that's my experience with adverts like the ones you mentioned. The biggest catch on most is the use of, "or one of the following skills..." and reading it as needing all.
I get those too and I sometimes follow up on them because I am one of those guys who uses SQL Server with NoSQL, AWS and Python. I know others who dabble between SQL and C# a lot because they wear so many hats. When I follow up on opportunities like you mentioned, they are normally wishing for all of those to save money in one position, but don't get what they want and end up saying they are looking for only some of that, not all at the end of the day.