BWFC (5/13/2014)

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Gary Varga (5/13/2014)

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BWFC (5/13/2014)

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I've been lucky enough to land in the world of business intelligence with no prior experience other than asking my now colleagues if they could make or change reports to provide the business I was working in with more relevant information. This means that I'm constantly on the hunt for training, whether leading to Microsoft Certification or otherwise. I know that Gary has certainly provided me with some useful advice about UK based courses and finally the company has said that they'll pay for some formal training. The big question is of course, how much will they pay? Up to now though, short of some basic 'this is a SELECT statement', 'this is GROUP BY', at the beginning, I've taught myself. Every day I'm gaining valuable experience but I'd definitely like to have something on paper, whether it's a Microsoft cert, a college course or a company's proprietary BI certificate.

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Have you seen https://www.coursera.org/course/db ?

I hadn't, that looks very good. It looks like the kind of course that although very informative, the company would be loath to pay for because the content is not massively relevant to what we do. I've signed myself up though because in my opinion you can't know enough. Thanks once again.

There's a couple of BI courses run in Manchester that my colleague and I have asked to go on. They've been passed up the ladder for authorisation so fingers crossed. The Cousera course is definitely one to do in my own time because we're so busy here.