I agreed with you that a DBA with no skills could still survive in a company for years.  I saw many SQL developers with no SQL skills stayed with the...

When I worked in a small company, I had to talk to the users and collect requirements.  They had no problem telling me what they wanted.  All my projects were...

Have you looked at reporting service that came with SQL Server 2005?

How did you get a job as DBA when you do not have any experience? Just curious.

If you use regular SQL server to build the data warehouse, you just build it in star schema. Many company uses RDBMS to build the data warehouse.

It does not matter if you are using SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005, you can build the dimension tables and fact tables in SQL Server. The analysis...

Can we go back and talk about SQL Server and its own tools?

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit by Ralph Kimball, Laura Reeves (Wiley)

The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit with SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset by Joy Mundy and Warren...

There are two rooms - one has three switches, and one has three lamps and the two room was seperated by a wall.  You can only go to see the other...

Yes, execl needs to be installed on the server.

Are you using AS400 to run the DB2 or which operating system that you are using ?

When you define the AS400 in ODBC, which driver do you choose, I use...

BTW, there was a question asked by Bill Gates (10 years ago), it was not a technical question but kind of a IQ question.  But he said if anyone could...

When I was a junior programmer, people would ask me to take some kind of technical tests.  It was fine with me because of limited skills and experiences.

With 20 years experiences,...

Sorry Brian.  It was Bob. 

But my idea was just put out the link would be enough and the title, well, let people be the judge.

Steve

To me this is a web site about SQL Server, we can ask people question, opinion and idea about SQL Server.  If someone has question about using certain third party...