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  • April 20, 2008 at 12:34 pm

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    James_DBA (4/20/2008)

    This further illuatrates my point. An exceptional DBA that can answer 'why' must be able to research the subject. They must know what the right question is to ask, and where to go to get the answer.

    Research skills and resource knowledge is the most important skill. As you stated with your teachers, the exceptional teacher(s) had explained the 'why'. This can only be perormed by further researching to find out 'why' the calculation is made.

    An effective communicator can definitely move things along faster and smoother. Without the knowledge from researching the subject, they'd be ineffective to explain 'why'.

    Thanks,

    James

    I agree... one without the other, in either direction, will be ineffective.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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