Wjat would be a good supplmental skill to SQL server

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Skybvi SSCoach Points: 15130 More actions · Answer 1

Whcih you would rate higher ( in terms of career growth and market trend):--

1) ASP.NET with SQL SERVER

2) BI with SQL SERVER

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Skybvi

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Sushant Kumar

frankcastle509 Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 547 More actions · Answer 2

1) ASP.NET with SQL SERVER

I think this option will increase your exposure to Programming skills and latest internet and web developing technology. It will bring opportunity to work in both front end as well as back end.

2) BI with SQL SERVER

Real-time BI disseminates information about a business in a range from milliseconds to a few seconds after the business event.

Over the coming years, business intelligence will undergo transformation that will have a broad and lasting impact. It will revolutionize the way that we think about business and the way business decisions are made.

After reading much about BI, I would rate BI with SQL SERVER higher than the other.

with asp.net, you are diverting career to web programming.

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padhis SSCommitted Points: 1762 More actions · Answer 3

BI with SQL server admistration would obviously value add to the skillset .

Gail Wanabee SSCrazy Eights Points: 8471 More actions · Answer 4

SQL Server, et al, and SAN administration, Systems Administration, Network Administration.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 5

Let's go all the way back to the beginning on this because I'm actually quite curious about this. What, exactly, is meant by the following snippet from the original post?

lkokeunda (12/10/2011)
[font="Arial Black"]If you have some level of proficiency in administration, and t-sql programming[/font], what would be a good supplemental skill that you can consider learning to make yourself more marketable?

--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.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

jshahan SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4622 More actions · Answer 6

Are you more interested in administration or TSQL?

If it is TSQL consider that there are a bunch of report writers out there that aren’t really qualified to talk about (as in analyze) the data they can produce.

Think about becoming competent with statistics and any popular statistics program like SPSS (IBM bought the company and may have changed the name of SPSS to something else but it wouldn’t be hard to find).

You can become invaluable to senior management if they feel you can present them with numbers they can trust and understand.

SSAS is a good complement to the previous two skills as well. Many execs have not seen the power of a cube and are amazed that they can be used to answer their own questions as fast as they can pose them from HUGE datasets.

Michael Valentine Jones SSC Guru Points: 64818 More actions · Answer 7

Maybe some tips from the old master:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)

Skybvi SSCoach Points: 15130 More actions · Answer 8

Michael Valentine Jones (1/18/2012)
Maybe some tips from the old master:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)

I remember "Jack of all trades, master of none"

Regards

Skybvi

Regards
Sushant Kumar

JamesMorrison Hall of Fame Points: 3213 More actions · Answer 9

Lee Crain (1/17/2012)
SQL Server, et al, and SAN administration, Systems Administration, Network Administration.
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Lately I have been leaning towards getting my Cisco certifications to go along with my SQL Server background. Whenever something is not working right, it tends to either be the network or the database that everyone points their fingers at. So knowing both of those would be extremely valuable.

Two of highest paid job titles in information technology are typically Cisco network engineers and the DBAs. I am working on my CCNA (Router & Switch) right now since we have only Cisco gear in our data center. In a year or two I will likely try for my CCNP.

I tend to agree with Lee Crain, especially on Network and SAN. There are plenty of System Administrators, so that is not so much of a need to specialize in. We all learn our way around Windows Server and Active Directory, just in the day to day role of being the DBA. I am sure most of us are Domain Admins where we work. At every job I have been at, I find that I need access to many different kinds of servers to support the connectivity to the SQL Server clusters in our operation. Web servers, file servers, data appliances, etc.

The one area where I used to feel lost was the black hole of "the network". Other than throwing out a ping, I used to be lost in terms of what else to do other than call "the Cisco guy in the data center". I don't feel that way any more.