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Alex is a Data Platform MVP who loves DevOps.He's has been helping data professionals apply DevOps principles to relational database development and deployment since 2010. He's most proud of helping Skyscanner develop the ability to deploy 95 times a day. Alex has worked with clients on every continent except Antarctica - so he's keen to meet anyone who researches penguins.A keen community member, he helps organise Data Relay and he created speakingmentors.com. He blogs at workingwithdevs.com, speaks wherever they'll let him and manages the DLM Digest quarterly email: a report on the latest database DevOps news/tutorials. He was awarded his first MVP award in 2017.Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 10 July 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski & Michal Sadowski.This is part 2 out of 2.

Alex is a Data Platform MVP who loves DevOps.He's has been helping data professionals apply DevOps principles to relational database development and deployment since 2010. He's most proud of helping Skyscanner develop the ability to deploy 95 times a day. Alex has worked with clients on every continent except Antarctica - so he's keen to meet anyone who researches penguins.A keen community member, he helps organise Data Relay and he created speakingmentors.com. He blogs at workingwithdevs.com, speaks wherever they'll let him and manages the DLM Digest quarterly email: a report on the latest database DevOps news/tutorials. He was awarded his first MVP award in 2017.Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 10 July 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski & Michal Sadowski.This is part 1 out of 2.

Denis is a Data Architect. He has more than ten years of experience in software development, database design and performance tuning for cloud and on-premises solutions.In 2010 Denis became Microsoft Data Platform MVP and maintain the MVP status till now.Apart from his professional career, Denis actively participates in the development of Ukrainian SQL Community and hold the status of PASS Regional Mentor for Central and Eastern Europe.Due to the corona-virus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 10 July 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Michal Sadowski & Kamil Nowinski.

Denis is a Data Architect. He has more than ten years of experience in software development, database design and performance tuning for cloud and on-premises solutions.In 2010 Denis became Microsoft Data Platform MVP and maintain the MVP status till now.Apart from his professional career, Denis actively participates in the development of Ukrainian SQL Community and hold the status of PASS Regional Mentor for Central and Eastern Europe.Due to the corona-virus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 10 July 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Michal Sadowski & Kamil Nowinski.

Jennifer Stirrup is a data strategist and technologist, Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft Certified Trainer, founder of Data Relish Ltd, diversity and technical community advocate, public speaker and blogger. She is a published author, writing two books on Tableau and R, and she is in the process of writing another on Microsoft Power BI.Keynote speaker, author, diversity, influencer.Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 26 June 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Jennifer Stirrup is a data strategist and technologist, Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft Certified Trainer, founder of Data Relish Ltd, diversity and technical community advocate, public speaker and blogger. She is a published author, writing two books on Tableau and R, and she is in the process of writing another on Microsoft Power BI.Keynote speaker, author, diversity, influencer.Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this talk has taken place online on 26 June 2020 (Friday) using Zencastr platform.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Principal consultant and architect at Altius specialising in big data solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.Data engineering competencies include Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Stream Analytics, Event Hub, IoT Hub, Functions, Automation, Logic Apps and of course the complete SQL Server business intelligence stack.Many years’ experience working within healthcare, retail and gaming verticals delivering analytics using industry-leading methods and technical design patterns.STEM ambassador and very active member of the Data Platform Community delivering training and technical sessions at conferences both nationally and internationally.Father, husband, swimmer, cyclist, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego and Star Wars fan!This talk has taken place in London, UK on 9 March 2020 (Monday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Principal consultant and architect at Altius specialising in big data solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.Data engineering competencies include Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Stream Analytics, Event Hub, IoT Hub, Functions, Automation, Logic Apps and of course the complete SQL Server business intelligence stack.Many years’ experience working within healthcare, retail and gaming verticals delivering analytics using industry-leading methods and technical design patterns.STEM ambassador and very active member of the Data Platform Community delivering training and technical sessions at conferences both nationally and internationally.Father, husband, swimmer, cyclist, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego and Star Wars fan!This talk has taken place in London, UK on 9 March 2020 (Monday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack.On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee into insights for customers, and references witty British comedy way too often. Overly enthusiastic about anything data related, he’s trying hard to keep up with all things new and shiny.Rumour has it that he's also involved with a ragtag band of data enthusiasts, enjoying themselves whilst organising cool community things. They go by the name of ... dataMinds!This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday 2020 in Mechelen, Belgium on 7 March 2020 (Saturday).Bear in mind that we were in a moment when the corona-virus just started spreading across Europe and 5 days earlier Microsoft made the decision that this year’s MVP Summit will be an online-only / virtual event.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Benni De Jagere is a Senior Data Insights Consultant with a strong focus on the Microsoft (BI) Stack.On a daily basis, he turns (large amounts) of coffee into insights for customers, and references witty British comedy way too often. Overly enthusiastic about anything data related, he’s trying hard to keep up with all things new and shiny.Rumour has it that he's also involved with a ragtag band of data enthusiasts, enjoying themselves whilst organising cool community things. They go by the name of ... dataMinds!This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday 2020 in Mechelen, Belgium on 7 March 2020 (Saturday).Bear in mind that we were in a moment when the corona-virus just started spreading across Europe and 5 days earlier Microsoft made the decision that this year’s MVP Summit will be an online-only / virtual event.Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Tomaž Kastrun is BI & DEV developer, data analyst & data science.With more than 15 years of experiences in the field of databases, business warehouses and development, with a focus on T-SQL programming and query optimization. His focus is also data mining, statistics and research. He has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 2000.He is Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Trainer.Tomaž is a blogger, author of many articles, speaker at various community and Microsoft events and an avid coffee drinker.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 14 December 2019 (Saturday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski (T).

Tomaž Kastrun is BI & DEV developer, data analyst & data science.With more than 15 years of experiences in the field of databases, business warehouses and development, with a focus on T-SQL programming and query optimization. His focus is also data mining, statistics and research. He has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 2000.He is Microsoft MVP, Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Trainer.Tomaž is a blogger, author of many articles, speaker at various community and Microsoft events and an avid coffee drinker.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 14 December 2019 (Saturday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski (T).

Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. He found the way to the technology of Microsoft SQL Server with the assignment for the development of membership administration software for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. Afterwards, the software has been distributed to five additional European countries.The primary passion for developments with Microsoft SQL Server expanded in 2007 with his engagement as a DBA for the Deutsche Bank AG. After 6 years of experiences in the European Operations Center as a DBA and over 14 years as a developer of complex database models he earned in May 2013 the “Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008” certification which “was” the highest technical certification from Microsoft.The successful year 2013 has been finalized with the first MVP award for his outstanding support to the Microsoft SQL Server community in Germany and Europe. Uwe Ricken was the first MCM + MVP in Germany!Uwe is blogging since 2010 about his daily experiences with SQL Server. His blog posts are in German language only to provide the German-speaking SQL community a deeper inside view into the technology. Uwe Ricken is a speaker on many international conferences and events and preferred topics for “Database Internals”, “Indexing” and “Development”.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Madrid, Spain on 28 September 2019 (Saturday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Uwe Ricken is working with IT systems since the 90’s. He found the way to the technology of Microsoft SQL Server with the assignment for the development of membership administration software for the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany. Afterwards, the software has been distributed to five additional European countries.The primary passion for developments with Microsoft SQL Server expanded in 2007 with his engagement as a DBA for the Deutsche Bank AG. After 6 years of experiences in the European Operations Center as a DBA and over 14 years as a developer of complex database models he earned in May 2013 the “Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008” certification which “was” the highest technical certification from Microsoft.The successful year 2013 has been finalized with the first MVP award for his outstanding support to the Microsoft SQL Server community in Germany and Europe. Uwe Ricken was the first MCM + MVP in Germany!Uwe is blogging since 2010 about his daily experiences with SQL Server. His blog posts are in German language only to provide the German-speaking SQL community a deeper inside view into the technology. Uwe Ricken is a speaker on many international conferences and events and preferred topics for “Database Internals”, “Indexing” and “Development”.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Madrid, Spain on 28 September 2019 (Saturday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Mikael Wedham is the first Microsoft Certified Master on SQL Server 2008 in Sweden. He has worked as a developer and database administrator since 1993 and in '97, Mikael became a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has gone through a pedagogical education with DSAT. Mikael was one of the first in Sweden giving lectures in Microsoft OLAP Services for SQL 7.0 and is also hired as Business Intelligence expert. Mikael is the founder of SQL Saturday in Sweden, where he also appears as an appreciated speaker.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden on 15 September 2019 (Sunday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Mikael Wedham is the first Microsoft Certified Master on SQL Server 2008 in Sweden. He has worked as a developer and database administrator since 1993 and in '97, Mikael became a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has gone through a pedagogical education with DSAT. Mikael was one of the first in Sweden giving lectures in Microsoft OLAP Services for SQL 7.0 and is also hired as Business Intelligence expert. Mikael is the founder of SQL Saturday in Sweden, where he also appears as an appreciated speaker.This talk has taken place after SQL Saturday 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden on 15 September 2019 (Sunday).Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

Aaron Bertrand is a Product Manager at SentryOne, with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. In his spare time, he is either playing volleyball, curling, blogging at sqlperformance.com, blogs.sentryone.com and sqlblog.org.He is contributing to SQL conversations on twitter and dba.stackexchange.com.Has been a Microsoft MVP since 1997-98. He wrote chapters for two charity-driven books, SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 1 and Volume 2 and speaks frequently at conferences, user group meetings, and SQL Saturday events around the world.This talk has taken place during SQLDay 2019 in Wroclaw, Poland on 13 May 2019 (Monday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michal Sadowski.

Aaron Bertrand is a Product Manager at SentryOne, with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. In his spare time, he is either playing volleyball, curling, blogging at sqlperformance.com, blogs.sentryone.com and sqlblog.org.He is contributing to SQL conversations on twitter and dba.stackexchange.com.Has been a Microsoft MVP since 1997-98. He wrote chapters for two charity-driven books, SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 1 and Volume 2 and speaks frequently at conferences, user group meetings, and SQL Saturday events around the world.This talk has taken place during SQLDay 2019 in Wroclaw, Poland on 13 May 2019 (Monday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michal Sadowski.

Rob Farley is a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server since 2006. Rob provides consulting and training courses around the world in SQL and BI topics. His community involvement keeps him quite busy -  as well as running the Adelaide [adelejde] SQL Server User Group, he is a former Director of PASS and helps co-ordinate many events around the world.He has also assisted Microsoft Learning in developing many certification exams, writes a blog and co-writes "Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting".On his blog, you can find him writing about various SQL topics, particularly T-SQL and the Query Optimizer.This talk has taken place during SQLDay Summit 2019 in Wroclaw, Poland on 13 May 2019 (Monday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michal Sadowski.

Rob Farley is a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server since 2006. Rob provides consulting and training courses around the world in SQL and BI topics. His community involvement keeps him quite busy -  as well as running the Adelaide [adelejde] SQL Server User Group, he is a former Director of PASS and helps co-ordinate many events around the world.He has also assisted Microsoft Learning in developing many certification exams, writes a blog and co-writes "Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting".On his blog, you can find him writing about various SQL topics, particularly T-SQL and the Query Optimizer.This talk has taken place during SQLDay Summit 2019 in Wroclaw, Poland on 13 May 2019 (Monday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michal Sadowski.

Leila Etatti is an AI MVP, mentor, trainer, speaker and consultant. She spoke in some important conference such as Microsoft USA Ignite, Microsoft Data Insight Summit, SQL PASS, SQL PASS BA, Difinity. She has over 10 years’ experience working with SQL server. She was involved in many large-scale projects for big sized companies as SQL Server and BI consultant. She worked in Industries including banking financial, power and utility, manufacturing. Leila is Ph.D. of Information System department, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a lecturer of BI and Machine Learning courses. Leila is an active Technical Microsoft AI blogger for RADACAD.This talk has taken place during MVP Summit 2019 in Redmond, WA (USA) on 22 March 2019 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Marek Matuszewski.

Leila Etatti is an AI MVP, mentor, trainer, speaker and consultant. She spoke in some important conference such as Microsoft USA Ignite, Microsoft Data Insight Summit, SQL PASS, SQL PASS BA, Difinity. She has over 10 years’ experience working with SQL server. She was involved in many large-scale projects for big sized companies as SQL Server and BI consultant. She worked in Industries including banking financial, power and utility, manufacturing. Leila is Ph.D. of Information System department, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a lecturer of BI and Machine Learning courses. Leila is an active Technical Microsoft AI blogger for RADACAD.This talk has taken place during MVP Summit 2019 in Redmond, WA (USA) on 22 March 2019 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Marek Matuszewski.

Amit R S Bansal is a SQL Server Specialist at SQLMaestros (brand of eDominer Systems). He leads the SQL and BI practice with a much-focused team providing consulting, training and content development services to more than 160+ SQL customers globally. He frequently speaks at international conferences including Data Platform Summit (India), MS Ignite (US), SQLBits (UK), PASS Summit (US) & SQL Saturday events across the globe. Amit is also honoured with Microsoft Regional Director status, MVP award and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) of SQL Server credential. Amit has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and has been part of countless mission-critical SQL deployments. Performance Tuning in SQL Server is his core area of expertise.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 1st March 2019 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski (T), Michal Sadowski (T)

Amit R S Bansal is a SQL Server Specialist at SQLMaestros (brand of eDominer Systems). He leads the SQL and BI practice with a much-focused team providing consulting, training and content development services to more than 160+ SQL customers globally. He frequently speaks at international conferences including Data Platform Summit (India), MS Ignite (US), SQLBits (UK), PASS Summit (US) & SQL Saturday events across the globe. Amit is also honoured with Microsoft Regional Director status, MVP award and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) of SQL Server credential. Amit has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and has been part of countless mission-critical SQL deployments. Performance Tuning in SQL Server is his core area of expertise.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 1st March 2019 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski (T), Michal Sadowski (T)

How much extra commitment helps at work and what else?In what position did Patrick no good and why he was sweating?What is tremendously difficult for Patrick, but is child's play for Adam?Who is Adam's mentor and how has he started speaking on workshops?In this episode is predominantly about commitment, youtube, extra efforts, moments of discouragement, how to do things well and how to start.There will be a few things about Star Wars, Power BI and Microsoft teams, Kerberos and DTS too.Guy in a Cube is all about helping you master business analytics on the Microsoft Business analytics stack to allow you to drive business growth.They are just two guys that do the work.Adam & Patrick look at how to leverage Microsoft Business Analytics to allow you to gain knowledge that is needed to shape the data your business cares about. This includes Power BI, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Excel. If you work with our business analytics products or services, be sure to subscribe and join in the discussion with their weekly content on YouTube channel.Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc are Microsoft employees.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 28th February 2019 (Thursday).Interviewers: Prathy Kamasani (T), Kamil Nowinski (T).

How much extra commitment helps at work and what else?In what position did Patrick no good and why he was sweating?What is tremendously difficult for Patrick, but is child's play for Adam?Who is Adam's mentor and how has he started speaking on workshops?In this episode is predominantly about commitment, youtube, extra efforts, moments of discouragement, how to do things well and how to start.There will be a few things about Star Wars, Power BI and Microsoft teams, Kerberos and DTS too.Guy in a Cube is all about helping you master business analytics on the Microsoft Business analytics stack to allow you to drive business growth.They are just two guys that do the work.Adam & Patrick look at how to leverage Microsoft Business Analytics to allow you to gain knowledge that is needed to shape the data your business cares about. This includes Power BI, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Excel. If you work with our business analytics products or services, be sure to subscribe and join in the discussion with their weekly content on YouTube channel.Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc are Microsoft employees.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 28th February 2019 (Thursday).Interviewers: Prathy Kamasani (T), Kamil Nowinski (T).

Do you want to know why actually YouTube?What tool Adam does use for post-production?Why the very first movies were like "awful"?Who has been scared to death and why?What were the circumstances of joining Patrick to the team and what's fun fact related to his name?And finally: how did the YOOO become a hallmark - get know the entire story about it.Guy in a Cube is all about helping you master business analytics on the Microsoft Business analytics stack to allow you to drive business growth.They are just two guys that do the work.Adam & Patrick look at how to leverage Microsoft Business Analytics to allow you to gain knowledge that is needed to shape the data your business cares about. This includes Power BI, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Excel. If you work with our business analytics products or services, be sure to subscribe and join in the discussion with their weekly content on YouTube channel.Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc are Microsoft employees.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 28th February 2019 (Thursday).Interviewers: Prathy Kamasani (T), Kamil Nowinski (T).

Do you want to know why actually YouTube?What tool Adam does use for post-production?Why the very first movies were like "awful"?Who has been scared to death and why?What were the circumstances of joining Patrick to the team and what's fun fact related to his name?And finally: how did the YOOO become a hallmark - get know the entire story about it.Guy in a Cube is all about helping you master business analytics on the Microsoft Business analytics stack to allow you to drive business growth.They are just two guys that do the work.Adam & Patrick look at how to leverage Microsoft Business Analytics to allow you to gain knowledge that is needed to shape the data your business cares about. This includes Power BI, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Excel. If you work with our business analytics products or services, be sure to subscribe and join in the discussion with their weekly content on YouTube channel.Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc are Microsoft employees.This talk has taken place during SQLBits 2019 in Manchester (UK) on 28th February 2019 (Thursday).Interviewers: Prathy Kamasani (T), Kamil Nowinski (T).

Do you know which conference was inspired by the SQLBits conference?How to make a success as a team at work?What’s important in your public speaking?CTO at Clouds On Mars, former Microsoft employee as Data Insights Product Manager for Poland. In 2007 Pawel started Polish SQL Server User Group (PLSSUG), currently known as Data Community Poland, an official PASS Chapter in Poland. Pawel has been a speaker at many conferences in Poland and worldwide (e.g. SQLDay, SQLSaturday, European PASS Conference). Six times Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Father of three. Avid runner.This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday #824 in Krakow (Poland) on 9th February 2019 (Saturday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michał Sadowski.

Do you know which conference was inspired by the SQLBits conference?How to make a success as a team at work?What’s important in your public speaking?CTO at Clouds On Mars, former Microsoft employee as Data Insights Product Manager for Poland. In 2007 Pawel started Polish SQL Server User Group (PLSSUG), currently known as Data Community Poland, an official PASS Chapter in Poland. Pawel has been a speaker at many conferences in Poland and worldwide (e.g. SQLDay, SQLSaturday, European PASS Conference). Six times Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Father of three. Avid runner.This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday #824 in Krakow (Poland) on 9th February 2019 (Saturday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski, Michał Sadowski.

How many bicycles he has got at home and where was the destination of last year of a 400 km trip? Which tool among Azure is the closest to his soul? What exactly is hiding behind the term "Modern Data Warehouse"? When Azure Data Factory (Mapping) Data Flow will be publicly available? Also, we will try to answer the fundamental question: is the SSIS dead or alive? Find out the answers on these questions and much, much more.As Chief Cloud Architect with Adatis Consulting, Simon Whiteley has been working with the Microsoft BI Stack for a decade, starting off building traditional warehouses with SSIS and SSAS but bringing in alternative technologies where needed. Most recently, he has turned his head to the clouds, advocating new methods of getting insight to the right people. Whether it's automating file ingestion into Azure Data Lakes, applying massive compute via SQLDW & Data Lake Analytics, or simply shifting your current SSIS packages into the cloud, he can help. Big believer in the wider data community - Regularly present on cloud analytics architectures and runs the SQL Surrey PASS chapter & co-organises the London PASS Chapter. Simon is a strong advocate of the use of modern development practices in the SQL World. Data Geek, Cloud Herder, Speaker, Cyclist, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and general Tech-Nerd.This talk has taken place after London SQL Server User Group meeting in London (UK), CodeNode on 29th January 2019 (Tuesday). Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

How many bicycles he has got at home and where was the destination of last year of a 400 km trip? Which tool among Azure is the closest to his soul? What exactly is hiding behind the term "Modern Data Warehouse"? When Azure Data Factory (Mapping) Data Flow will be publicly available? Also, we will try to answer the fundamental question: is the SSIS dead or alive? Find out the answers on these questions and much, much more.As Chief Cloud Architect with Adatis Consulting, Simon Whiteley has been working with the Microsoft BI Stack for a decade, starting off building traditional warehouses with SSIS and SSAS but bringing in alternative technologies where needed. Most recently, he has turned his head to the clouds, advocating new methods of getting insight to the right people. Whether it's automating file ingestion into Azure Data Lakes, applying massive compute via SQLDW & Data Lake Analytics, or simply shifting your current SSIS packages into the cloud, he can help. Big believer in the wider data community - Regularly present on cloud analytics architectures and runs the SQL Surrey PASS chapter & co-organises the London PASS Chapter. Simon is a strong advocate of the use of modern development practices in the SQL World. Data Geek, Cloud Herder, Speaker, Cyclist, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and general Tech-Nerd.This talk has taken place after London SQL Server User Group meeting in London (UK), CodeNode on 29th January 2019 (Tuesday). Interviewer: Kamil Nowinski.

How many people do live in our guest's country? What can give you a valuable perspective? How can you convince your boss to upgrade SQL Server to a newer/latest version on enterprise platform?Mladen Prajdić is a Data Platform MVP from Slovenia. He's been professionally programming for over 15 years, developing different types of applications in .Net (C#) and SQL Server, ranging from standard line-of-business, image-processing applications to high performance and IoT applications. He's a regular speaker at various conferences and user-group meetings, really likes to optimize slow SQL statements, analyze performance, and find unconventional solutions to difficult SQL Server problems. In his free time, he also develops a very popular add-in for SSMS, called the SSMS Tools Pack (www.ssmstoolspack.com).This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday #782 Slovenia conference in Ljubljana, on 8th December 2018 (Saturday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Michal Sadowski.

How many people do live in our guest's country? What can give you a valuable perspective? How can you convince your boss to upgrade SQL Server to a newer/latest version on enterprise platform?Mladen Prajdić is a Data Platform MVP from Slovenia. He's been professionally programming for over 15 years, developing different types of applications in .Net (C#) and SQL Server, ranging from standard line-of-business, image-processing applications to high performance and IoT applications. He's a regular speaker at various conferences and user-group meetings, really likes to optimize slow SQL statements, analyze performance, and find unconventional solutions to difficult SQL Server problems. In his free time, he also develops a very popular add-in for SSMS, called the SSMS Tools Pack (www.ssmstoolspack.com).This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday #782 Slovenia conference in Ljubljana, on 8th December 2018 (Saturday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Michal Sadowski.

Which unusual mean of transportation Alex use from time to time? Why monitoring of data quality does matter and what is the very efficient contrary of SCD in SSIS in BI loading process? Which skill is important if you want to jump into the IT market?Find out the answers on these questions and much, much more.Alex Whittles is the owner and principle consultant at Purple Frog, a SQL Server Business Intelligence consultancy in the UK with multinational clients in a variety of sectors. He specialises in all aspects of dimensional data modelling, data warehousing, ETL and cubes using the SQL Server stack.Alex has an MSc (Master of Science) in Business Intelligence, is a chartered engineer, and a member of Mensa. Community leadership includes being on the SQLBits committee, Director of SQL Relay, founder and leader of the Birmingham Data Platform user group.Alex is also a regular speaker at many SQL Server events around the world including SQL Relay, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, 24 HOP and the PASS Summit.This talk has taken place during Data Relay (formerly SQL Relay) conference in Reading (UK), on 11th October 2018 (Thursday). Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski.

Which unusual mean of transportation Alex use from time to time? Why monitoring of data quality does matter and what is the very efficient contrary of SCD in SSIS in BI loading process? Which skill is important if you want to jump into the IT market?Find out the answers on these questions and much, much more.Alex Whittles is the owner and principle consultant at Purple Frog, a SQL Server Business Intelligence consultancy in the UK with multinational clients in a variety of sectors. He specialises in all aspects of dimensional data modelling, data warehousing, ETL and cubes using the SQL Server stack.Alex has an MSc (Master of Science) in Business Intelligence, is a chartered engineer, and a member of Mensa. Community leadership includes being on the SQLBits committee, Director of SQL Relay, founder and leader of the Birmingham Data Platform user group.Alex is also a regular speaker at many SQL Server events around the world including SQL Relay, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, 24 HOP and the PASS Summit.This talk has taken place during Data Relay (formerly SQL Relay) conference in Reading (UK), on 11th October 2018 (Thursday). Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski.

How did Chris Webb start working with SSAS? What is the future of SSAS On-Premise? How often the Direct Query has chance to being used in Power BI? What was the story of the beginnings of Chris' consultancy company?Check these things and much more in this episode. Chris Webb is independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, Power Pivot, DAX, Power Query and Power BI in general. He has been blogging about Microsoft BI for over 10 years, and racked up over 1000 posts on his blog! Also he speaks at a number of conferences including SQLBits, the PASS Summit, the PASS BA Conference, SQL Saturdays and user groups.The author of "Power Query for Power BI and Excel", a co-author of few other books and also he co-authored the white paper "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" for Microsoft.This talk has taken place during Data Relay (formerly SQL Relay) conference in Birmingham (UK), on 10th October 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski.

How did Chris Webb start working with SSAS? What is the future of SSAS On-Premise? How often the Direct Query has chance to being used in Power BI? What was the story of the beginnings of Chris' consultancy company?Check these things and much more in this episode. Chris Webb is independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, Power Pivot, DAX, Power Query and Power BI in general. He has been blogging about Microsoft BI for over 10 years, and racked up over 1000 posts on his blog! Also he speaks at a number of conferences including SQLBits, the PASS Summit, the PASS BA Conference, SQL Saturdays and user groups.The author of "Power Query for Power BI and Excel", a co-author of few other books and also he co-authored the white paper "Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment" for Microsoft.This talk has taken place during Data Relay (formerly SQL Relay) conference in Birmingham (UK), on 10th October 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski.

Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server since 1987 when she joined the Sybase Corporation in Berkeley, California. Kalen has an independent international trainer and consultant since 1992. She has been a SQL Server MVP since 1993 and has been writing about SQL Server almost as long. Kalen has spoken at dozens of technical conferences, including every PASS conference in the US and multiple TechEd events in both the US and Europe. Kalen is the author or co-author of many books on SQL Server, including the series about SQL Server Internals.This talk has taken place during SQLDay conference in Wroclaw (Poland), on 16th May 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera.Why we have the #SQLFamily so great?How long did take Kalen to update the book about SQL Server 7.0? What is Kalen's advice about starting in IT market?Who did thanks to Kalen more times in the last three weeks than in the last few years? What kind of things Kalen loves to repair?Do you know the story about @sqlqueen twitter handle? You'll find all answers out over here.

Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server since 1987 when she joined the Sybase Corporation in Berkeley, California. Kalen has an independent international trainer and consultant since 1992. She has been a SQL Server MVP since 1993 and has been writing about SQL Server almost as long. Kalen has spoken at dozens of technical conferences, including every PASS conference in the US and multiple TechEd events in both the US and Europe. Kalen is the author or co-author of many books on SQL Server, including the series about SQL Server Internals.This talk has taken place during SQLDay conference in Wroclaw (Poland), on 16th May 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera.Why we have the #SQLFamily so great?How long did take Kalen to update the book about SQL Server 7.0? What is Kalen's advice about starting in IT market?Who did thanks to Kalen more times in the last three weeks than in the last few years? What kind of things Kalen loves to repair?Do you know the story about @sqlqueen twitter handle? You'll find all answers out over here.

Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of SolidQ. A Microsoft Data Platform MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of several books including Microsoft SQL Server High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions, T-SQL Fundamentals and T-SQL Querying. He has written articles for SQL Server Pro, SolidQ Journal and MSDN. Itzik's speaking activities include SQLPASS, SQLBits, SQLTeach and various user groups around the world. Itzik is the author of SolidQ's Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning and T-SQL Fundamentals courses along with being a primary resource within the company for their T-SQL related activities.This talk has taken place during SQLDay conference in Wroclaw (Poland), on 16th May 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera.Do you know what Itzik does like doing the most? What kind of thing is important when writing a book? Why worth to be at conferences and also when he has started working with Microsoft SQL Server databases? Find out more in this talk.

Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of SolidQ. A Microsoft Data Platform MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of several books including Microsoft SQL Server High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions, T-SQL Fundamentals and T-SQL Querying. He has written articles for SQL Server Pro, SolidQ Journal and MSDN. Itzik's speaking activities include SQLPASS, SQLBits, SQLTeach and various user groups around the world. Itzik is the author of SolidQ's Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning and T-SQL Fundamentals courses along with being a primary resource within the company for their T-SQL related activities.This talk has taken place during SQLDay conference in Wroclaw (Poland), on 16th May 2018 (Wednesday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera.Do you know what Itzik does like doing the most? What kind of thing is important when writing a book? Why worth to be at conferences and also when he has started working with Microsoft SQL Server databases? Find out more in this talk.

James Rowland-Jones is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft. He is passionate about delivering highly scalable solutions that are creative, simple and elegant in their design. James specializes in big data warehouse solutions such as Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS), Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Hadoop ecosystems.James is a keen advocate for the SQL Server community; both internationally and in the UK. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for PASS and helped organise SQLBits. James was awarded Microsoft’s MVP accreditation from 2008 - 2015 for his services to the community.This talk has taken place during SQL Bits conference in London, on 23rd February 2018 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera (remotely).Do you want to know why James has moved to Seattle and started working for Microsoft?How he started his career in IT and what is important in your work? Which big conference is his baby and how much his community involvement has affected his professional life?You will find out all the answers in the following talk.

James Rowland-Jones is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft. He is passionate about delivering highly scalable solutions that are creative, simple and elegant in their design. James specializes in big data warehouse solutions such as Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS), Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Hadoop ecosystems.James is a keen advocate for the SQL Server community; both internationally and in the UK. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for PASS and helped organise SQLBits. James was awarded Microsoft’s MVP accreditation from 2008 - 2015 for his services to the community.This talk has taken place during SQL Bits conference in London, on 23rd February 2018 (Friday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowinski & Damian Widera (remotely).Do you want to know why James has moved to Seattle and started working for Microsoft?How he started his career in IT and what is important in your work? Which big conference is his baby and how much his community involvement has affected his professional life?You will find out all the answers in the following talk.

Rob is a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation & SQL. He is an MVP & an officer for the PASS PowerShell VG & has spoken at, organised & volunteered at many events. He is a member of the committee that organises SQL Saturday Exeter, PSDayUK & also the European PowerShell Conference. He is a proud supporter of the SQL & PowerShell communities.He relishes sharing & learning & can be found doing both via Twitter & his blog. He spends most of his time looking at a screen & loves to solve problems. He knows that looking at a screen so much is bad for him because his wife tells him so. Thus, you can find him on the cricket field in the summer or flying a drone in the winter.He has a fabulous beard!This talk has taken place during SQL Bits conference in London, on 22nd February 2018 (Thursday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowiński & Hubert KobierzewskiWhat is his recipe for having a good speech? Where is a passion in his life? Check out which kind of toys Rob doesn't take to abroad and why. Check that and also, why we had a lot of background noises during this chat.

Rob is a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation & SQL. He is an MVP & an officer for the PASS PowerShell VG & has spoken at, organised & volunteered at many events. He is a member of the committee that organises SQL Saturday Exeter, PSDayUK & also the European PowerShell Conference. He is a proud supporter of the SQL & PowerShell communities.He relishes sharing & learning & can be found doing both via Twitter & his blog. He spends most of his time looking at a screen & loves to solve problems. He knows that looking at a screen so much is bad for him because his wife tells him so. Thus, you can find him on the cricket field in the summer or flying a drone in the winter.He has a fabulous beard!This talk has taken place during SQL Bits conference in London, on 22nd February 2018 (Thursday).Interviewers: Kamil Nowiński & Hubert KobierzewskiWhat is his recipe for having a good speech? Where is a passion in his life? Check out which kind of toys Rob doesn't take to abroad and why. Check that and also, why we had a lot of background noises during this chat.

Grant Fritchey is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 20 years of experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. He has worked with SQL Server since 6.0, back in 1995. He has developed in Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Java. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk), SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress) and co-Author “Expert Performance Indexing”, “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2”, “Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration” and “Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices”.Since 2009 he has been awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. In 2014 I was awarded as a Dunn & Bradstreet MVP. In 2011 I received the Tech10 Award in Rhode Island and joined Red Gate Software as a Product Evangelist in January.Grant volunteers at PASS, currently serving on the PASS Board of Directors as the President.This talk has taken place during PASS Summit in Seattle, WA, on 3rd November 2017 (Friday).Do you wanna know why Grant is so-called Scary DBA? How is he sharing his working time between Redgate and PASS and who has given him 6-weeks sabbatical? What is his approach to teaching, speaking and working? What does mean work-life balance for him?Check this out right now.

Grant Fritchey is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 20 years of experience in IT, including time spent in support and development. He has worked with SQL Server since 6.0, back in 1995. He has developed in Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Java. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk), SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress) and co-Author “Expert Performance Indexing”, “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2”, “Beginning SQL Server 2012 Administration” and “Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices”.Since 2009 he has been awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. In 2014 I was awarded as a Dunn & Bradstreet MVP. In 2011 I received the Tech10 Award in Rhode Island and joined Red Gate Software as a Product Evangelist in January.Grant volunteers at PASS, currently serving on the PASS Board of Directors as the President.This talk has taken place during PASS Summit in Seattle, WA, on 3rd November 2017 (Friday).Do you wanna know why Grant is so-called Scary DBA? How is he sharing his working time between Redgate and PASS and who has given him 6-weeks sabbatical? What is his approach to teaching, speaking and working? What does mean work-life balance for him?Check this out right now.

Dejan Sarka, MCT and SQL Server MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant that focuses on the development of database & business intelligence applications.  Besides projects, he spends about half of the time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or co-author of sixteen books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka also developed many courses and seminars for Microsoft, SolidQ and Pluralsight.This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 9th December 2017 (Saturday).What is Dejan's favourite sports and which one he cannot plays?How many MVPs were in the world when Dejan was given the title?Check out his last book and find out what he called as a bullshit? Without what he cannot start each day?Check these answers out in this episode.

Dejan Sarka, MCT and SQL Server MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant that focuses on the development of database & business intelligence applications.  Besides projects, he spends about half of the time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or co-author of sixteen books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka also developed many courses and seminars for Microsoft, SolidQ and Pluralsight.This talk has taken place during SQL Saturday in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 9th December 2017 (Saturday).What is Dejan's favourite sports and which one he cannot plays?How many MVPs were in the world when Dejan was given the title?Check out his last book and find out what he called as a bullshit? Without what he cannot start each day?Check these answers out in this episode.

Pedro Lopes is a Senior Program Manager in the Database Systems Group, based in Redmond, WA, USA. He over 15 years of industry experience. He is currently responsible for Program Management of database engine features for in-market versions of SQL Server, with special focus on the Relational Engine.He also works closely with several Tier 1 SQL Server customers, as well as partners in the field, to understand and gather information about product usage and feedback to drive improvements into the product. Prior to this role, he was a Premier Field Engineer based in Europe for several years.He has deep understanding and experience in various features of the product spanning several versions of SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 7 and up to and including SQL Server 2016.This talk has taken place during PASS Summit in Seattle, WA, on 3rd November 2017 (Friday).Why working for the Tiger Team is so fascinating? Why Pedro started to love the data? How to start to be a community leader? Is sharing knowledge an important thing? What does Pedro proud of the most?Check these answers out in this episode.