Speakers for
SQLBits goes Forth.
Aaron Johal
KindarCats Limited
Aaron is a freelance training consultant who has been working with SQL Server since v4.2. Prior to this he was a certified Powerbuilder developer working with Sybase SQL Server as the server side database. Prior to this he worked on various systems ranging from those based around DB2 and Cobol/2 to those based around Ingress RDBS and Ingress Windows 4GL as the OO development environment. He has a love of learning and teaching and derives great pleasure in helping people understand the possibilities afforded by the use of technology.
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Allan Mitchell
www.konesans.com
Allan is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on the BI suite of tools. He is a SQL Server MVP, a frequent poster on the MS SSIS/DTS newsgroups as well as running the sqldts.com and sqlis.com resource sites.
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I'm a contractor based in the Netherlands. Working with SQL Server since version 6.5
I sometimes think that I have memorized Books Online by now and can do my work on autopilot.
But usually even before my first cup of coffee something strange happens and I find myself searching for clues on Google.
I am a co-founder and currently chairman of the Dutch PASS chapter.
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Andrea is a software developer who has written several software applications for various companies. She has worked with SQL Server and c# for several years. She has a worked on various database projects including content management systems, contact database, mail order databases systems and a multilingual database. She has designed the backend database system as well as implementing the user interface in c# and vb.net. She has also implemented online and offline applications.
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Andrew Wiles
iT-Workplace Limited
I have been involved with Olap for too long.....
I have developed Olap database technology, Olap applications and now develop Olap reporting tools.
Maybe one day I will feel that I am done with Olap and move on...
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Ashwani Roy
Information Management Group
I am SQL server and Visual Studio enthusiast.I am working with SQL server since 2003 and have been envolved with the whole SQL server and BI stack since then.I am MCTS , MCITP with SQL Server 2005.
I work as Consultant with Information Management group .
When not working you might find me on microsoft forums or XBOX live.
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Ben Hall
Red Gate Software
Ben Hall is a UK C# developer\tester with a strong passion for software development and loves writing code. Ben works at Red Gate Software as a Test Engineer and enjoys exploring different ways of testing software, including both manual and automated testing, focusing on the best ways to test different types of applications. Ben is a C# MVP and maintains a blog at Blog.BenHall.me.uk
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Brad McGehee
Red Gate Software
Professional Experience
Brad M. McGehee is a MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT (former) with a Bachelors’ degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. Currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, Brad is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 13 years’ SQL Server experience, and over 6 years’ training experience.
Community Support
Brad is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, SQL Connections, SQLTeach, Code Camps, TechFests, SQL Server user groups, and other industry seminars, where he shares his 13 years’ cumulative knowledge.
Brad was the founder of the popular community site SQL-Server-Performance.Com, and operated it from 2000 through 2006, where he wrote over one million words on SQL Server topics.
In 2008, Brad attended 16 conferences/user group events, presented 26 sessions, and had 1,402 people attend them.
A well-respected and trusted name in SQL Server literature, Brad is the author or co-author of more than 12 technical books and over 100 published articles. His most recent books include “How to Become an Exceptional DBA,” and “Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008: The Top Ten New Features for DBAs.” In early 2009, he will be releasing a book on how to use the SQL Server Profiler.
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Chris Testa-O'Neill
Remarc Group
Chris Testa-O'Neill is the Database Product Manager at Remarc Group Ltd.
He specialises in SQL Server Business Intelligence Solutions and teaches all Microsoft courses in the SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008 product range.
He also conducts closed company sessions and consults on thier business implementations of SQL Server.
Chris is also a technical author is currently working on E-Learning courses for SQL Server 2008 with Microsoft Learning.
Chris is a MCT and has Microsoft qualifications in MCDBA, MCTS and MCITP in SQL Server 2000 and 2005 as well as an MCSE in Windows Server 2000 and 2003.
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Chris Webb
Crossjoin Consulting
Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services and the MDX query language. He is a co-author of the second edition of the book "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase" along with George Spofford. Chris has extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, banking, engineering, manufacturing and market research.
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Christian Bolton
Coeo Ltd
Christian Bolton is a Director and Database Architect for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner that delivers SQL Server Managed Support and Consulting to organisations in the UK and Europe. Prior to this, Christian worked for 5 years as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft UK working with some of Microsoft’s biggest customers. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect, Certified Master and MVP for SQL Server, co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning and is currently writing a book titled Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals & Troubleshooting. He works out of London and lives in the south of England with his wife and children and can be contacted through http://coeo.com.
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Daniel Fisher is a co-founder of devcoach® (www.devcoach.biz), a company that supports and accompanies customers in projects with the Microsoft® .NET platform all through from architecture to deployment.
He has a strong emphasis on service-orientation (SOA), agile methodologies and processes, the web and data access. Daniel is a recognized expert in the SOA-field and plans and realizes distributed systems on the Microsoft platform since many years.
He is one of the early Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) experts and was a member of the technical adoption program for the Microsoft Corporation. For the federal office for security in information technology of the German government he and Michael Willers have created a security analysis and written practice-proven guidelines for the daily work with WCF. As experts for the topic “SOA with .NET” they traveled through Europe to discuss the requirements of architects from all over the world and help them implement solutions.
Daniel is developing software since 1995 (since 1999 on the .NET platform) and has worked several years on projects as a developer, architect, project lead and consultant for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware, construction supplies and various other companies of different branches.
He is actively contributing to the software developer community as user group lead (www.netug-niederrhein.de) and chair-man of JustCommunity e.V. (www.justcommunity.de), organizer of the biggest regional community event (www.nrwconf.de).
You can read his blog on lennybacon.com.
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Darren Green
Konesans Ltd
Darren is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on BI and SSIS. He is a SQL MVP and a frequent poster on the MSDN SSIS forums as well as running the sqldts.com and sqlis.com resource sites.
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Davide Mauri
Solid Quality Mentors
Davide Mauri - MCP, MCAD, MCDBA, MCT, MVP on SQL Server - works with SQL Server since version 6.5, and his interest cover the whole platform, from the Relational Engine to Analysis Services, from architecture definition to performance tuning.
He also have a strong knowledge of XML, .NET and the Object Oriented Design principles, which allows him to have the correct vision and experience to handle development of complex business intelligence solution. His latest work on BI is the creation of the entire BI solution for Deborah Group, so if your wifes and girlfriends are now spending more money on lipsticks, perfumes, and so no, please don't blame him.
Beside consultancy he loves to teach custom-made courses on the SQL Server platform. He actually works as a Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors and can be found speaking in many Italian and internationals events.
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Dr András Belokosztolszki
Red Gate Software
András Belokosztolszki is a software architect at Red Gate Software Ltd. He is a frequent speaker at many UK user groups. He is primarily interested in database internals and change management. At Red Gate he has designed and led the development of many database tools that compare schemata and enable source control for databases (SQL Compare versions 4 to 8), refactor databases (SQL Refactor) and show the history of databases by analyzing the transaction log (SQL Log Rescue). András has a PhD from Cambridge and an MSc and BSc from ELTE, Hungary.
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Ed Vassie
Totaljobs Group
Ed has enjoyed working in computing for over 30 years on many different platforms covering application design and DBA work in various countries and cultures. After developing an international reputation in DB2, he now majors on SQL Server. He prefers being a techie and is now a Database Architect at Totaljobs Group, a leading provider of online recruitment sites. Skilled at identifying the key cost, benefit and risk factors, Ed delivers by interpreting the business vision to innovate E2E solutions that give real commercial advantages.
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Gojko Adzic runs Neuri Ltd, a UK-based consultancy that helps companies
build better software by introducing agile practices and tools and
improving communication between software teams, stakeholders and
clients. His programming story so far includes equity and energy
trading, mobile positioning, e-commerce, betting and gaming and complex
configuration management.
Gojko is the author of several popular printed and online guides on
acceptance testing, including Bridging the Communication Gap, Test
Driven .NET Development with Fitnesse and Getting Fit with .NET, and
more than 200 articles about programming, operating systems, the
Internet and new technologies published in various online and print
magazines. He is the primary contributor to the DbFIT database testing
library which is used by banks, insurance companies and bookmakers
worldwide.
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Hue Holleran
Open Action Limited
Hue Holleran is a professional consultant specialising in database-centric solutions and specifically SQL Server since v4.21 in 1994 - and all versions since! After more than 20 years as a consultant to over 100 organisations and some of the largest global brands in various industries - he has established a reputation for leading teams leveraging modern tools and technologies in innovative and practical ways.
Being old enough to remember all too well developing database solutions in 'C' on a mainframe and DBase and FoxBase+ in the mid 1980's and Oracle v7.x in the early 1990's - Hue is one of the first developers of that "modern" approach: client/server!
Having frequently presented on various topics since presenting for Microsoft at all UK venues for the launch of Visual Studio 6 in 1998, Hue's current focus is on leveraging the enterprise capabilities of SQL Server 2005 to implement truly robust and resilient systems that retain excellent performance even in the most challenging of environments.
Hue is currently consulting in one of those challenging environments with world-leading utilities suppliers, Actaris and Itron. Many systems with daily loads of 100's millions of records and retained record volumes in the billions - a significant and enjoyable challenge!
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Iain Kick is SQL Server systems consultant with more than eight years of experience working with complex database environments starting with Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5. He is currently the lead consultant for Quest Software’s SQL Server business in the United Kingdom and in this role is responsible for pre- and post sales support and technical guidance including understanding the business drivers of Quest’s customers and delivering effective solutions and expertise, technical guidance and implementation support to address customer requirements. Prior to joining Quest in 2005, Iain was a production DBA for Framlington Group and ITouch PLC. He is involved in and supports the SQL Server community as an author and speaker, and has presented at various industry events including SQLBits, regional user groups, to Microsoft TS teams and at Quest product launches and customer events all over Europe. Iain specialises SQL Server performance, tuning and backup/recovery. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1999 with a degree in computer studies.
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James Boother
Live Software Solutions
James Boother is the Managing Director and co-founder of Live Software Solutions a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on custom development solutions on the Microsoft platform. James is a passionate .net developer and development manager with experience in the insurance and publishing sectors among others. He is a keen squash and tennis player, formula 1 fan and devoted father of three.
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James Rowland-Jones
EMC Consulting
James is an Advisory Consultant at EMC Consulting. His focus has been the development and technical direction of major, mission-critical, pan-European projects in the enterprise. His experience includes data and system architecture, information analysis, logical and physical database modelling and design, highly available implementations, ETL process architecture and client tools implementations including a number of major bespoke applications. He has worked in IT since 1998 and with SQL Server since 6.5.
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Jamie Thomson
EMC Consulting
Jamie has been a SQL Server MVP since January 2006 due largely to his contributions to the SSIS user community.
He is looking forward (but with repidation) to making his presenting debut at SQL Bits 4.
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I work as a Principal Consultant for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server consulting services for upgrade, performance tuning, scalability and availability solutions for all versions of SQL Server. Coeo also offer Remote DBA services to customers who outsource management and 24x7 operations of their SQL Server platform. I work delivering and maintaining SQL Server solutions for customers in many different industry sectors throughout Europe.
Prior to joining Coeo - I spent three years working for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer. In this role, I delivered SQL Server support consulting to some of Microsoft’s largest finance and government customers in Europe. I have co-authored Wrox IT Pro: SQL Server Performance Tuning, and two Syngress study guides on SQL Server 2008.
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Klaus Aschenbrenner works as a Software Architect for in Vienna - Austria. Klaus has worked with the .NET Framework and especially with SQL Server 2008 from the very beginning. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was honored with MVP awards from Microsoft for his tremendous support of the .NET Community. He currently travels around the world teaching clients the core concepts of SQL Server 2008. Klaus is also the author of the book Pro SQL Server 2008 Service Broker (ISBN 1590599993) published by Apress in August 2008.
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Martin Bell
Carillon Software Systems Ltd
Martin Bell is a dashing and attractive redhead and you would never guess that he has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He’s worked on many relational database systems and since the 1998 has specialized in SQL Server. He was first awarded Microsoft MVP (SQL Server) status in June 2003 proving he is not just a pretty face! As an insight into his masochistic tendancies he currently organises the Scottish Area and Leeds Area SQL Server User Group meetings. He is also a founding organiser of the highly successful SQLBits Community Conferences showing he is slightly mad and very funny!!
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Martin Cairney
Right Join Consultants
Martin Cairney has over 10 years experience as a SQL Server DBA. In his time he has worked for one of the largest IT services companies in the world deploying and supporting SQL Server installations from versions 6.5 through to 2005. Martin has supported some the SQL Server estate of some major Government Departments and Financial Institutions as well as a variety of occasional consultancy roles.
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Mike Taulty
Microsoft Ltd
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Pawel Potasinski
Asseco Business Solutions S.A.
Pawel Potasinski is a database developer and consultant currently working for Asseco Business Solutions S.A. corporation. He has been working with SQL Server since 2000. His focuses are data transfer processes, performance troubleshooting and dynamic code generation. He has worked as a trainer/consultant for one of the best training companies in Poland for four years and he holds MCT certification since 2004. Pawel is strongly involved in SQL Server community in Poland. In 2007 he founded the Polish SQL Server User Group (www.plssug.org.pl). In 2008 he was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for SQL Server.
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I have been an independent contractor for 15 years and before that I worked for Software House for 5 years, before that I was an accountant (for my sins). For the last 10 years I have worked with SQL Server as both a DBA and Developer. I now tend to pigeon-hole myself as a SQL Server developer. The area I get most satisfaction working in is optimisation and tuning. Recently I have been building a datawarehouse for a client using SSIS extensively hence the submission
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R Meyyappan
www.sqlworkshops.com
R Meyyappan is a SQL Server specialist with expertise in Performance Tuning. Ramesh worked at Microsoft Corporation from 1994 to 2004. Nearly half of that time he worked in Redmond in the development teams - specifically as Program Manager in the SQL Server Development Team responsible for optimizing SQL Server product for SAP. Ramesh now offers onsite and offsite consulting and workshops independently as well as by partnering with various Microsoft Subsidiaries.
"3 Day Level 400 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 / 2005 Performance Monitoring & Tuning” Workshop delivered by Ramesh has been organized by various European Microsoft Subsidiaries including Microsoft Austria / Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), Microsoft Belgium, Microsoft Czech Republic, Microsoft Denmark, Microsoft Germany, Microsoft Netherlands, Microsoft Norway, Microsoft Poland, Microsoft Russia, Microsoft Slovakia, Microsoft Slovenia, Microsoft Sweden and Microsoft Switzerland.
You can find articles written by Ramesh at www.sqlworkshops.com/articles
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Richard Fennell
Black Marble
Richard is the Engineering Director of Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director Richard is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the company, and their clients, to deliver solutions efficiently.
All Black Marble's development activity is underpinned by Team System using Agile process models. Richard is a MVP for Team System and a Certified Scrum master. Richard is a regular presenter at community events in the UK (and the rest of the world given a chance) where his most common subject is software testing and development process.
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Robert Hogg
Black Marble Ltd
Robert began his career in IT in the 1980s, and in 1997 was a founding member of Black Marble. He has extensive experience in a broad spectrum of disciplines, including multi-platform development, software design, encryption systems and collaboration solutions.
Well respected in the industry, Robert has presented on behalf of Microsoft at Research Conferences, TechEd Europe, and Irish Technology Conferences. He regularly presents on emergent technologies at numerous community events such as Developer! Developer! Developer! and is part of an ongoing tour of Northern Universities speaking on IT and Developer security with Microsoft’s Chief Security Officer for the UK (Ed Gibson).
Wrox Press published Robert’s EBrief “SOA and ESB Architecture with BizTalk” in 2008.
In 2007, Robert presented at TechEd Europe Developers on "Implementing Enterprise Service Bus using Microsoft Biztalk Server", and in 2008 he was an 'Ask the Expert' for BizTalk at TechED US and TechED EMEA.
He is a member of the British Computer Society and is also a Chartered Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.
In 2007, Robert was awarded MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) for Microsoft Visual Studio, Architect. In 2008, he was awarded MVP for Microsoft BizTalk, and is now an Architecture MVP. He is also an Advisor to the Microsoft Connected Systems Division.
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Ross Mistry
Convergent Computing, (CCO)
Ross Mistry is a consultant, bestselling author and SQL Server MVP. As a consultant in the Silicon Valley, he design and implements solutions for fortune 500 organizations with Microsoft technologies. His specialties include migrations, high availability, security and virtualization. Ross has been involved in over ten books; his latest titles include SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed and Hyper-V Unleashed. Ross also frequently speaks at international conferences such as PASS, Connections and Microsoft. His sessions receive top rated speaker scores. His blog can be found on networkworld.com and the Microsoft TechNet IT Community Manager Hub site.
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Sameh Elnikety
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Sameh Elnikety is passionate about replicated databases. His work aims at building scalable computer systems, and spans a number of areas including operating systems, distributed computing and databases. Sameh obtained a Ph.D. from EPFL in 2007 and then joined the systems and networking group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.
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Satya Jayanty
SSQA.net Limited
Knowledge
is the power and you will gain by sharing it;
I'm an Independent
Database expert, with over 16+ years of experience in application
designing, developing and managing database technologies using industry
famous technologies & software. I have been working with SQL Server
since version 4.2 (1996) and active member & moderator in Technet,
MSDN, SQL-Server-Performance.com forums/websites and also writing for www.sql-server-performance.com & www.sqlservercentral.com websites. I'm a regular speaker
and volunteer (Ask The Experts) at SQL Server events such as SQLPASS,
Microsoft Tech-ed, SQLBits etc. and I was awarded as SQL Server MVP since the year 2006. I
also update content & manage the websites
http://www.sqlserver-qa.net & http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/ssqanet/default.aspx.
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Simon Munro
EMC Consulting
Simon Munro is a Senior Practice Consultant with EMC Consulting. Currently doing solution architecture on the Microsoft stack, Simon has spent more than fifteen years straddling the line between application and database development. Over the years he has worked on a wide range of database solutions from transactional to data warehouse and various volumes and loads.
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Simon Sabin
Onarc Consulting Limited
Simon is an independent Database consultant specialising in the world of search, distributed architectures, business intelligence and application development. He has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has always focused on high performance reliable systems. He was awarded as an MVP in 2006 and is regular speaker at SQL Server events as well as writing for SQLServerCentral and Simple-Talk.com.
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Tom has been a DBA since 1998, he started out using SQL Server 4.2 and 6.5. He works for RM Education, a provider of hardware, software and hosting services to the education sector in the UK and abroad. Before that he worked for Oxfam. He is a senior DBA, with responsibilities for system design, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting He has written several articles for sql-server-performance.com. He presented at SQL Bits 2 and 4.
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Tomislav Piasevoli
SoftPro Tetral d.o.o.
Tomislav is a Business Intelligence Specialist focused on Microsoft platform. He lives in Croatia and works for SoftPro Tetral company known for its two OLAP clients: Manager and CubePlayer.
Tomislav's specialty is cube design and MDX. However, working in a small company for the past six years, he gained experience in all phases of a BI project, from presenting solution to end-user support, result of which are many local companies addicted to their cubes and CubePlayer as a front-end.
Lately, Tomislav became involved in sharing his knowledge worldwide by contributing to Microsoft SSAS forum, blogging and speaking at conferences.
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Vincent Rainardi
Amadeus IT
Very passionate with data warehousing, Vincent works in London as data warehousing & BI consultant specializing on SQL Server platform. He currently works at a global insurer, and previously worked for Lastminute.com, Veolia, Avery Dennison and Accenture. In 2007 he spent a year writing a SQL Server data warehousing book, titled 'Building a data warehouse with examples on SQL Server', published by Apress. He started working with data warehousing in 1996 when he was working for Accenture. He has been working with SQL Server since 2000 and regularly writes data warehousing & BI articles on SQLServerCentral.com.
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