Favourite articles

Given below is a list of my favourite articles.

General articles on skills, consulting, market demand, roadmap, etc

• New to SAP world? What training to undergo?
• Breaking into SAP
• Want to get into SAP technologies? Read these articles
• Biggest mistake that SAP job seekers make
• Should you be an SAP specialist or a generalist?
• Is SAP certification worth the money?
• How to work your way into SAP without spending on certification?
• Getting into SAP consulting
• Road ahead for SAP consultants
• What are the sought after skills after SAP-BO merger?

Articles on SAP CRM

• Introduction to SAP CRM - part 1
• Introduction to SAP CRM - part 2

Articles on data warehousing

• Data warehouse of an insurance company (by Ralph Kimball)
• The 38 subsystems of ETL (by Ralph Kimball)

Articles on databases (Oracle / DB2 / SQL / Performance tuning)

• On writing good SQL
• About Oracle Explain plan
• About Oracle SQL tracing
• Best practices for tuning DB2 UDB
• Basic DB2 performance tuning
• Common errors when using outer-joins