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ASF 030: Benni De Jagere interview

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.

ASF 029: Tomaz Kastrun interview

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).

ASF 028: Uwe Ricken interview

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.

ASF 027: Mikael Wedham interview

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.

ASF 026: Aaron Bertrand interview

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.