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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...