Speakers from SQLBits - Beside the seaside.
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http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/
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SQL Sentry, Inc.
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Aaron is a senior consultant for SQL Sentry, makers of performance monitoring and event management software for SQL Server, Analysis Services, and Windows. He has been blogging at sqlblog.com since 2006, focusing on manageability, performance, and new features; has been an MVP since 1997-98; and speaks frequently at user group meetings and SQL Saturday events.
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http://alastaira.wordpress.com
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a3uk
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Alastair Aitchison is an independent developer, trainer, author and consultant specialising in spatial data reporting and analysis. His work has been used by the House of Lords, the police, political parties and various media agencies.
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http://sqlblog.com/blogs/alberto_ferrari/default.aspx
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SQLBI
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Alberto Ferrari is a Business Intelligence consultant. Alberto helped several software houses to build complex BI solutions, from the OLTP to the final OLAP cubes, providing planning hints all over the development lifecycle. He is a book author also, having worked on "Exper Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008" with Marco Russo and Chris Webb and Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning with Marco Russo.
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http://www.PurpleFrogSystems.com
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Purple Frog Systems
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Alex is the owner and lead consultant at Purple Frog, a SQL Server Business Intelligence consultancy. He specialises in dimensional data modelling, data warehouse design, ETL systems, OLAP cubes & MDX. He also runs the Midlands SQL Server user group.
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http://www.sqlha.com
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SQLHA
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Clustering MVP Allan Hirt is a consultant, published author, speaker, and trainer who has used SQL Server since 1992. Allan travels all over the world to work with and train clients. His most recent book is "Pro SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering".
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http://www.CopperBlueConsulting.com
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Copper Blue Consulting
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Allan is the joint owner of Copper Blue Consulting Ltd. Copper Blue Consulting focus on getting the right data to the right people at the right time and in the right format. We are passionate about data integrity and suitability.
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http://www.dbsophic.com
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DBSophic
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Ami Levin is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and an IT veteran. For the past 14 years he has been consulting, teaching and speaking on SQL Server worldwide. Levin’s areas of expertise are data modeling, database design, T-SQL and performance tuning.
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http://andrekamman.com
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I'm a Dutch SQL Server consultant. Having worked as a DBA on 400+ instances for the past couple of years.
I'm on a datawarehouse project right now where I find myself using SSIS mostly these days.
I run the Dutch PASS chapter, and I'm a SQL Server MVP
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http://www.bradmcgehee.com
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Red Gate Software
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Brad M. McGehee is the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software and is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 16 years SQL Server experience. Brad is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, European PASS, SQL Server Connections, SQLTeach, devLINK, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, TechFests, Code Camps, and SQL Server user groups, where he shares his 16 years’ cumulative knowledge and experience.
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/testas/
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Coeo Ltd
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Chris Testa-O'Neill is a SQL Server Microsoft Most Valuable Professional(MVP) and a Senior Consultant at Coeo specialising in SQL Server Business Intelligence. He is also a technical author, working on courses for SQL Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft Learning and advising on the SQL Server 2012 curriculum. Chris runs the Manchester SQL Server User Group and is an organiser for SQLBits. Chris has spoken at a range of events including user groups in the UK and Adelaide, Australia, SQLBits, the MCT Conference and this years SQLPASS. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCDBA, MCTS and MCITP in SQL Server.
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http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/
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Crossjoin Consulting
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Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot and DAX. He is a co-author of "Expert Cube Development with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services", and "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase", and blogs at http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian
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Coeo Ltd
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Christian Bolton is the Technical Director for Coeo Ltd, a leading provider of SQL Server Managed Support and Consulting in the UK and Europe. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect, Microsoft Certified Master and MVP for SQL Server, and lead author of Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/conor_cunningham_msft/default.aspx
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Microsoft
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Conor Cunningham is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft on the SQL Server Query Processor Team. He's worked on database technologies for Microsoft for over 10 years and is holds numerous patents related to Query Optimization and Query Processing. Conor is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles on query optimization techniques. Recently, he authored a chapter for the book "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals" on how the Query Optimizer works. He publishes a blog called "Conor vs. SQL" (http://blogs.msdn.com/conor_cunningham_msft/default.aspx) where he answers questions about databases.
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http://www.clearskysql.co.uk
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Clear Sky SQL
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Dave is a freelance SQLServer database developer / designer and has been working with SQLServer for the past 15 years. He regularly contributes to online forums and is founder of the Kent .NET/SqlServer user group.
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/drjohn/
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Decision Analytics
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John is an independent consultant with extensive experience of implementing Business Intelligence solutions on the Microsoft platform across a range of industries including healthcare, financial and professional services organisations.
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http://www.duncansutcliffe.com
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Hitachi Consulting
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I'm a senior architect for Microsoft BI solutions at Hitachi Consulting with over twelve years of designing BI solutions under my belt. I am keen on architecture design, development frameworks and very high quality code.
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http://www.sqlcat.com
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Ewan has worked for Microsoft for seven years. He currently works as a program manager in the Business Platform Division on the SQL Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) working on large scale OLTP SQL applications based in the UK.
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http://www.garyshort.org
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Short
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Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at events throughout the UK.
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http://blog.gavinpayneuk.com
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Coeo Ltd
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Gavin is a Senior 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.
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http://www.boother.co.uk
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Live Software Solutions
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James Boother is the co-founder of LSS a Microsoft Gold Partner delivering Dynamics CRM solutions. He's a passionate .NET and SQL developer working on projects in re-insurance risk modelling through to ecommerce, a formula 1 fan and Dad to three.
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http://www.jenstirrup.com
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Copper Blue Consultancy Ltd
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Jen is a freelance consultant who has been implementing BI solutions for over a decade, and has a special interest in data visualisation. She is often to be found tweeting on these topics at @jenstirrup
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http://blogs.technet.com/jessmeats
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Microsoft
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Jess Meats got a Masters in Maths and Computer Science at York. She then went straight to Microsoft as a SharePoint specialist, now a Partner Technology Advisor for SharePoint and BI. In her spare time, she juggles, studies kung fu and writes novels.
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http://www.blogger.com/profile/00838174333056013210
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Contemporary
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John is a BI consultant working for Contemporary (www.contemporary.co.uk) with a particular interest in information visualisation. He has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and with Reporting Services since 2005. He has worked in a variety of BI roles for a number of multinational organisations over this time and has utilised the full MS BI stack during his career, and since joining Contemporary in June 2010, has also used a number of technologies from the SAP BI suite.
@JStevensTaylor
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http://www.SQLServerClub.com
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Jon Reade is a Senior SQL Server consultant and SQL Server 2008 MCITP, working as a developer and production DBA since SQL 6.0. His main interests are in SQL Server high performance transactional systems, database hardware, database architecture and data warehouses. Jon writes for and is co-founder of SQLServerClub.com, SQL Server Club Bristol and Norb Technologies.
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/justinl
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Coeo Ltd
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Justin is a Principal Consultant for Coeo, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server consulting services for upgrade, performance tuning, scalability and availability solutions for SQL Server. Coeo also offer Remote DBA services for SQL Server platform. Prior to Coeo - Justin spent 3 years working for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer during which he delivered SQL Server support consulting to some of Microsoft’s largest finance and government customers. Justin co-authored Wrox IT Pro: SQL Server Performance Tuning, two Syngress exam guides on SQL Server 2008 and contributed to SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting guide with Christian Bolton, Brent Ozar and James Rowland-Jones.
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http://KevinEKline.com
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Quest Software
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Kevin Kline is the Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software. A Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2004, Kevin is a founding board member and past president of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). He has written or co-written several books including SQL in a Nutshell (O’Reilly & Associates), SQL Server MVP Deep Dives (Manning), Pro SQL Server 2008 Database Design and Optimization (APress) and Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server (Rampant). Kevin contributes to SQL Server Magazine and Database Trends & Applications Magazine and blogs at SQLBlog.com and SQLMag.com. His twitter handle is @kekline. Kevin is a top rated speaker at conferences worldwide such as Microsoft TechEd, the PASS Community Summit, Microsoft IT Forum, DevTeach, and SQL Connections, and has been active for over 20 years.
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http://www.sqlpassion.at
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SQLpassion
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Klaus Aschenbrenner provides SQL Server Consulting services across Europe and the US. He helps people around the world to understand, use, and run SQL Server installations in their environments. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was honored with MVP awards from Microsoft for his tremendous support of the .NET Community. 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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Microsoft
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Lubor is in SQL Server development group since the 6.5 release in 1996. He is currently responsible for development of Query Optimization and Execution, Data Warehousing and Scale-Out.Before joining Microsoft he was developing DB2 engines in IBM
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http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo
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SQLBI
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Marco Russo is a consultant and trainer in Business Intelligence, recently certified as SSAS Maestro. He wrote several books about Analysis Services and PowerPivot.
Marco has been a speaker at SQLBits, PASS Summit and Microsoft BI Conference.
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http://tenbulls.co.uk
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SQL Cloud
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Mark Broadbent is a SQL specialist working with numerous HADR solutions, is the SQLCambs UG leader, a presenter at SQLRally in Orlando, SQLBits 7 and 8 in the UK, due to speak at SQLPASS & a current holder of the MS Community Contributor award.
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http://dm-unseen.blogspot.com/
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DataMasters(Unseen)
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Martijn Evers has been developing information systems for over 15 years using MS Technology. The last 10 years as consultant/architect on SQL Server platform. His focus lies on modeling and metadata driven system development with eg Data Vault.
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http://www.solidq.com
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SolidQ
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Milos Radivojevic works for Solid Quality Mentors as a Data Platform Architect and is located in Vienna, Austria. He is MCTS for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and specializes in SQL Server for application developers and performance and query tuning.
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http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp
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dSolutions SI
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Mladen Prajdić is a SQL Server MVP from Slovenia and a C# and SQL Server developer for over 10 years. He blogs at http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp. He develops a popular free add-in for SSMS, called SSMS Tools Pack (http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/).
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/NeilHambly
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MDSL
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Neil Hambly (DB Architect) A SQL Professional during the last 14 years, having started with Version 6.5 and through every version since, Organiser and regular presenter @ conferences & UK SQL user groups events, working towards SQL 2008 MCM certification
LinkedIn Manager (UK SQLFAQ) and serial user-group presenter (> 30 events in 2011), enjoys twittering on SQL and spends many of his leisure hours in some SQL related activity,he will aslo be writing a SQL book and running training courses in SQL Server in 2012
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Ibersoft Ltd
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I have been an independent contractor for 17 years and before that I worked for Software House for 5 years. Recently I have been building a datawarehouse for a client using SSIS extensively hence the submission.
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http://www.developerworkshop.net
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Developer Workshop
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Peter Larsson is a key player for performance written code. He can turn a 10 hour query into a 3 minute piece of code. Peter is also a SQL Server MVP since 2009.
He often hangs out at SQLTeam.com (27k+ posts) and other various sites where he helps all people understand SQL Server.
When not working, he takes care of a wife and 4 kids.
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http://weblogs.asp.net/plip
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Microsoft
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Phil Winstanley provides solutions to situations which have complex technical requirements involving data manipulation. His expertise is internationally acclaimed and he is prominent in the network of specialists in this field, being a member of the Microsoft MVP programme since 2002 and a member of the ASP Insiders since its inception.
Now he works at Microsoft and advises techies throughout all markets on best practice and patterns.
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Microsoft
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Richard Tkachuk is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse team. Richard has been with the PDW team since shortly after the acquisition of DATAllegro and helped ship the SQL Server PDW appliance. Richard has been a part of SQL Server with a focus on data warehousing for over ten years.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/mistry
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Microsoft
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Ross Mistry is a best-selling author, former SQL Server MVP and enterprise architect with Microsoft. Ross designs technology solutions for Microsoft’s largest customers at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Silicon Valley. His recent books include; Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2 (MSPress), Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (SAMS) and SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration (SAMS). You can follow him on twitter @RossMistry
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http://saschalorenz.blogspot.com
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PSG Projekt Service GmbH - The SQL Server Company
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Sascha is co-founder of PSG GmbH and works since 1996 as a Principal Consultant focusing on the Microsoft Data Platform. He is also active in the SQL community as a leader of the Hamburg PASS Chapter and as a speaker on SQL Server related events.
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http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons
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SQL Know How
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Simon is Head of Data at Wonga.com. He specialises in performance and scalability.
He became a MVP in 2006 and in 2007 founded SQLBits. He is a SQL Microsoft Certified Master. You can follow him @simon_sabin or read his blog http://sqlblogcasts.com
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The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) manages all customer activity out of the SQL Server engineering organization. The goal is simple: Engage with the most interesting SQL Server customer projects and learn how the product behaves.
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http://www.datawarehouse.org.uk/
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Amadeus IT
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Vincent is a data warehouse & BI architect. He wrote a book on SQL Server data warehousing & BI, as well as many articles on www.datawarehouse.org.uk. Vincent is certified in designing BI solutions, database design and DBA (MCTS, MCITP, MCP).
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