Give Me Data or Give Me Death: Essential Data Access Skills for the Business User
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- After decades of hope for change, business users are still waiting for data from IT. Give Me Data, or Give Me Death is meant to help you fight for your own data without fear. History has shown us, that your current situation will not change, unless you do something about it. This book will give you essential data access knowledge you can use to help understand why business data is so elusive in today’s world. Business data from a software program, whether purchased from a vendor or built internally, is primarily stored in a relational database accessed using the SQL language. For what seems like an eternity, business users have been complaining about getting access to their data for reporting. IT (Information Technology) departments, or whatever your company calls the staff in charge of your database server, simply never offer enough data. What are users complaining about, why are they complaining, and how might they help themselves solve the age-old issue of data access? This book utilizes the 80/20 rule, 80% of data problems are easy to solve on your own and presumes IT can take care of the harder 20%. Regardless, having more knowledge about data and reducing some burden from IT can’t hurt. The more data about your business that’s readily available to you, the faster and more accurate your business decisions can be. The results are real tangible dollars, either made or saved. The sad news is that most business users settle for less reporting. Not because they can’t benefit from more information, but because it’s too time consuming or costly to obtain. When users can’t access data in a flexible manner for themselves, they get aggravated. This aggravation leads to frustration which ultimately leads to giving up. They find another way to do their job without the data. This book will unconventionally arm you with knowledge to make it easier for you to access your data yourself or at least let you understand why you have to wait for IT to do it for you. Although it covers many SQL commands and features, this book is not intended to teach you the SQL language. It’s designed to give a business user an understanding on how data access works and tips on why a report runs slow. Having fast and easy access to your data, in business terms you understand, is the single most important factor to making smart decisions.
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