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Mark Rittman has been hosting a BI & DW forum since the beginning of the year. But from a recent post from Mark there is a strong possibility that forum will fold; not because there is a lack of posts but because it is starting to look a bit like AskMark and Mr Rittman is not blest with unlimited time (he has a young family and a fulltime job) to provide what is essentially a free service to the community. I, and a few others, have chipped in on the few occasions when the question posted fits with our strengths but for a disproportionate amount of the time Mark fields the queries.

Other fora are out there; for example the Dizwell forum gets a large number of posts and more importantly a large number of people willing to post an initial answer to question. Howard Rogers is not always the first responder to posts on his forum. So why doesn’t it work that way on Mark’s forum?

What is it about the BI community that they are not so interested in sharing compared with the straight DBA community that seems much more able to share? Question to self is “straight DBA” an acceptable term?