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  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    >Could you invite one of your QA officers

    We are state government.  There is no such thing as a QA officer.

    >I am interested in your programming language, what sort of parser...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    SSRS: I have seen many SSRS reports.  Every user will export to Excel.  At which point either:

    1. All the data cells are merged.  Which makes the table unusable.
    2. The data...
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    SSC Guru, I've not had any demand for less than one day latency.  So I have no need to improve to querying the live database.

    I dont need to be a...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    Nope, learned what DBA means here!

    I cant say no.  I always say yes.  When Bedford changes back from a town to a locality, I can make the change in 1...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    SSC-Insane, No-one like me queries any OLTP live servers.  That's not what we are talking about.

    As you know, the business guru is given read access to a daily snapshot server. ...

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    HaHa, thanks Jeff for the great discussion.  Now if I can figure out which groups to join...  Dont know of any SQL Saturdays coming up... Where do I go for...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    Jeff: Cubes might be actually useful if I could add the Business Rules, the time dimension, etc etc.

    As it is, they wont even let me do a 1-line copycube.  So...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    Jeff: Right on!  You describe my situation well!

    Ratbak brought up SSIS.  Another beef.  Wasnt the ultimate for SSIS that the business user could add their business rules in the data...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    I do use MDX.  I have to.  They wont switch the SQL Server to listen to SQL!!

    I have the books.  It is _very_ difficult to write an MDX query with...

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    >One can use...

    Who is One?  Not 99% of anyone in a business unit that needs the data the most!

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    They have a separate backend server from the live database, of course.

    Just for me.  I run all the business intel for this division statewide.

    I query the separate SSAS server, as...

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    >what do you think the purpose of a database and SQL (the data language for relational and other types of databases) is?

    not sure that would help scope this forum.  I...

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    And it's more than data analysts.  So this is worthy of a larger discussion of what is and what is not of interest to this group.  Let's scope it.

  • Reply To: SQL isnt SQL

    Thanks for your nice discussion Jeff and Sergiy!

    Yes I was a little tough on DBAs.  Anyone can do anything really.

    Back to the point here -- so what is SQLServerCentral or...

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    Been there.  Done that.  From semiconductors to automotive to home medical to military to health in government.

    The only DBA or DBA Team are _not_ there for the business.

    The DBA has...

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