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King45 said:
I currently do helpdesk but 40% of it is doing sql. I've done a little bit of ssrs and ssis in college and also been studying on my own.
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The transition shouldn't be all that difficult. If you're familiar with SQL, then going to SSRS won't be too hard. SSIS will take a little getting used to. But experience will take care of that.

For practice, go to kaggle.com and download some of the datasets there. And practice getting the data from a flat file to a database in SSIS. After you've done that, display the data using SSRS.

The new job you're trying to go to, is there a job title or description attached to it? Because in some jobs, you'll do SQL, SSRS, and SSIS. In some jobs, you'll only do SQL and SSRS or SQL and SSIS.
 
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For Da Bag said:
The transition shouldn't be all that difficult. If you're familiar with SQL, then going to SSRS won't be too hard. SSIS will take a little getting used to. But experience will take care of that.

For practice, go to kaggle.com and download some of the datasets there. And practice getting the data from a flat file to a database in SSIS. After you've done that, display the data using SSRS.

The new job you're trying to go to, is there a job title or description attached to it? Because in some jobs, you'll do SQL, SSRS, and SSIS. In some jobs, you'll only do SQL and SSRS or SQL and SSIS.
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The job title's that I will start applying for will be Sql developer jobs
 
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For Da Bag said:
[Checklist] Screening Data Scientists vs. Analysts vs. Engineers - HackerRank Blog
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Adding on to this, a good article I read in HBR a while ago:

What Great Data Analysts Do — and Why Every Organization Needs Them

While there are an abundance of job specs out there for "Data Scientists", a lot of the time what companies really NEED is someone far more of a Data Analyst.

Ain't no point jumping on the ML/Cloud hype when you haven't even gotten your team to clean up there damn Excel spreadsheets yet!
 
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Getting on my SQL, SSIS, and SSRS.....Gonna flub some ish on my resume once I'm ready to interview. So many free videos online. Anyone have ideas on where to start? Jr. Developer? Who's doing DB or ETL work?
 
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Little bit of crossover with TC forum but perhaps it'll be viewed with more of an open mind in this thread as opposed to being torn down straight away as some "analytics nerds bullshyt" by TC!
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Profile on a Data Scientist at the 76ers by Bloomberg:

 
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