What is meant by Data Warehousing?

My apologies if this question shows up twice. I sent this yesterday but
we're having Exchange problems.

Not that Im looking for a new job or anything, but I've noticed alot of job
postings these days want DBA's to have Data Warehousing experience. (at
least in the Phoenix, Az. area.) Now I have no experience using anything
regarding DW, so I don't know what is meant by that?

Design? Load? Query? Administer? Other?

TIA, ChrisR

Any of the disciplines you mentioned could apply to DW. When job specs ask
for DW experience it usually means they are seeking someone who gained the
requisite skills (be that admin, design, development or whatever) in a DW
environment rather than on business process OLTP systems. The reasoning is
that many factors differentiate DW and OLTP and that competence in one
doesn't necessarily translate to competence in the other. I would say that's
less true of the DBA role than it is of say the Designer or Developer role.
Many, if not most DBA skills should be transferrable between the two.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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