Speakers from SQLBits - Beside the seaside.
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http://www.sqlperformance.com/author/abertrand
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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.Copper-Blue.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://il.linkedin.com/in/levinami
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SolidQ
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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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Rabobank International
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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://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://tsqlninja.wordpress.com
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Itelligence
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Dave Morrison is BI consultant for Itelligence. Having worked in the IT industry for around 14 years his main area of expertise is SQL Server, namely TSQL, query optimisation, indexing, performance tuning and internals etc.
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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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Microsoft
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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 Payne is a principal architect working for Coeo, a UK SQL Server consultancy, and a Microsoft Certified Architect and Microsoft Certified Master. His role is to lead projects that enhance and consolidate mission critical data platforms.
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http://www.coeo.com
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Coeo Limited
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James Boother is a Senior Consultant working for Coeo following 10 year's experience within the software industry. James helps Coeo's clients scope, design, deploy and performance tune their Microsoft SQL Server database platforms.
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http://www.jenstirrup.com
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Copper Blue Consultancy Ltd
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Jen is an data strategist, MVP, small business owner, technology advocate, public speaker and blogger. Jen is an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Professional Association of SQL Server. She tweets 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 and managed support for SQL Server. Justin is an MVP and co-authored Wrox IT Pro SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting.
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http://KevinEKline.com
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SQL Sentry
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Kevin Kline, a longtime Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is a founder and former president of PASS and the author of SQL in a Nutshell. He tweets at @kekline and blogs at http://KevinEKline.com.
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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 TechEd.
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http://tenbulls.co.uk
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SQLCloud
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Mark Broadbent is a SQL Server specialist and speaker with extensive experience working with numerous HADR & upgrade solutions and in 2011 was awarded Microsoft's Community Contributor award and in 2012 received the PASS Outstanding Volunteer 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.bwinparty.com
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bwin.party
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Milos Radivojevic is a database developer and consultant, speaker, and trainer and is located in Vienna, Austria. He has been working with SQL Server over 10 years. In March 2013 he joined bwin.party's database development team.
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http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp
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Mladen Prajdic s.p.
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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 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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Confio Software
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Neil Hambly is a Senior DBA @ Confio Software, having held various SQL Server roles during the last 14 years @ market leading companies (Accenture, ABN AMRO, BBC, iProfile, MDSL)
He has considerable Experience in SQL Server starting with version 6.5
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Ibersoft Ltd
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I have been an independent contractor for 19 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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