Living Cosmos

I paid for SAP Training from Ytek Solutions in Gahanna, OH. The instruction is teacher led, not student led. There are no labs during the lecture cycle for you to burn-in what is taught - you get 6 hours of a monologue, week after week. The instructor is from India, speaks rapidly and choppily and if you add to that bandwidth issues for realtime video, you get very poor sound throughput.

The course materials are not SAP standard, but written by the instructor. They were littered with errors and I have emails to back this up.

They also switched the course time. They promised a morning and afternoon session, but then switched to morning only without advising me.

Those are the issues with the Ytek rendition of SAP. The rest of the issues have to do with SAP itself.

I find the SAP extended star schema to be quite neat. You get quite a lot once you shoehorn your data model into their way of doing things.

But overall, I must say that I like the standard relational model much more. It is far more flexible and intuitive. I still dont really understand all the components of the star schema thoroughly, even after buying 5 or 6 texts to try to get the idea down.