I thought this editorial was about how scary we are as DBAs, especially since I dressed up as Dog the Bounty Hunter this year and which scared our Oracle DBA.

Mind...

I'm living a few hours north of you and I believe $60-$80/hr is a reasonable rate.  I worked for a software consulting company and we were billed out at $60-$80. ...

We use an app called Eventum, which is free.  On the downside it has a MySQL backend so now I have to administer that too.  It works quite well though.

You'll have to do some book learning for sure, but to answer your question here goes:

A fact table contains information about things you can measure so in an OLAP cube...

Just my 2 cents.  Studying for my MCDBA exams I learned quite a bit about the ins and outs of SQL Server.  Certainly there was a fair bit that I...

I think that a lot of people confuse risk mitigation with risk aversion as well.  I know I see it all the time, not just at work.  It doesn't help...

I have a script/stored procedure pair.  If you're interested message me and I can send it along.

In addition to dress code (fairly important to me, I typically want to wear jeans) I like to ask about the working conditions themselves.  I worked somewhere that we refered...

Since you have indicated you know how to program, all you now need to do is learn the syntax and grammar of T-SQL, which I have found to be quite...

Give your NetApp sales rep a shout and ask for some documentation and let them know that you'll be taking courses as well.  I worked somewhere that had one, it's...

If a network blip caused the outage, ask the network guy to call the router manufacturer to find out what happened.  This happend where I worked one time so instead...