[OT] – How I started working with SQL Server

I was asking the readers to tell us how their SQL Server career started and I though I’d share my story with you as well: I have actually started working with databases when I was a student. I was working at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in a part-time job as a developer, writing applications in Access and Delphi (?!) with an underlying Oracle database. When I completed my studies I got a job as a Project Manager at Panorama Software Systems. This company manages data warehouse projects and sells front-end business intelligence software based on the Microsoft platform (well, at least back then it was purely Microsoft oriented). So, on my first day at work I was given a desk, a chair and a desktop and I started learning SQL Server 7.0, from the ground up: database engine, analysis services, dts, the works! More than 10 years down the road – and I’m still working with the product, which have changed dramatically in this period as you may know.

Important note: I was given a clarification regarding the giveaway ticket for the BI seminar – The free ticket will grant the winner access to a single day of the seminar (and not the two days), so apologies for the confusion.

-Yaniv

(This is post number 19 for week number 23 of my SQL blog challenge)