chrism-787002 (2/3/2010)

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This is a large problem with most businesses. They spend time and energy convincing us that we need tools when we already have all the tools at our...

I think the gains in productivity are short term gains. In addition the comparison gets distorted due to the different quality controls.

I have worked long and short hours. Currently I...

Many thanks for the editorial I particularly enjoyed the The official story vs The unofficial story part.

This brought back memories of working for an organisation. They had a revolutionary new...

Thanks gents,

bit disappointing. I was hoping deep down that I had done something to cause the behaviour.

Thanks.

Ells

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or on the fact table add a column of value 1. This means that you can always retrieve the number of records. Very usefull thing to do generally.

Mark.

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has anyone set theor system up to synchronise after processing on a staging server?

This is currently my best option as I do have...

if you ask two questions then you will hire someone who can answer two questions. If you ask ten questions then you will hire someone who can answer ten questions....

I think in all the years I have only been impressed by one companys interview technique.

They start with a simple SQL select statement and get you to spot the missing...

Two things to take from that experience.

1. If the phone interview is just those two questions then whoever thought that was a good selection process should never be allowed to...

Its all good practice.

Mark.

It will come up again. I can remember the same contract being advertised a year ago so it will probably come around again. The money was not good but working...

I have only had a limited number of telepjone interviews. The last one was not good. We did not even start before it was over. The agency failed to inform...

You need SSIS installed on your machine.

Ells.

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This may not be true for 2008

For SSAS (2005) cubes there is an issue when a 'non developer' person connects to the cube through Excel 2003. They will go through...

You can load flat files into Oracle without using SSIS. I am pretty sure you can use PL\SQL to load data in. I have used PL\SQL to get data out....