800 tables in the source system?  Do you have to load the sources everyday?  Also 3 facts tables and 25 dimensions, so on average each fact table has more than...

My CEO gets the big bucks, they just announced his salary is 16 million.  I just get more and more work and the company has to cut budget for no...

Thanks Chris.  In my company, I am the developer, DBA (manage both development and production jobs, security, create database, create user sign on even apply patches.), also I do database...

How many dimension tables and fact tables do you have?

What is the maximum number of dimensions in the fact table do you have?

What kind of bottleneck do you have ? Do...

I did not receive it too.  I did not change anything.

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One of my friend used Sprint cell phone.  She actually had to go outside her house to make a phone call.  She finally dropped it and went to other vendor.

Another...

In most cases, even waiting for a long time, I finally got someone answering my phone call.  I could barely understand what that person was talking (10 out of 10 times...

That is the problem.  My new manager does not think a DBA should involve in designing the data warehouse.  He used to be a SQL developer involving in some ETL works...

I have 15 days time off every year but it includes vacation and sick days.  I think it is unfair.

Definitely more vacation time !!! At least give me back some comp...

Talking about updating the database, I used to work for a big Fortunate 500 Printing company back in 2000.  I could never get hold of anyone in HR. 

I only worked...

Eugene - can you give a reason why ?

Brandie,

You had touched many good points here. You are right on one thing, we always do our own work and it is not our nature not being a team player,...

From what I understand, database architect job is totally different from a DBA. In my old company the database architect worked with the DBA, and in most cases from my...

I am stilling struggling with SQL Server 2005 and the service pack is still keeping coming, definitely SQL server 2008 will not be considered in the next year or so.

However migrating...