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SQL Down UnderSDU Show 82 with guest Kamil NowinskiSDU Show 82 features Data Platform MVP Kamil Nowinski discussing Azure Data Factory and the best way to deploy it, including a free tool he has built to help
2021-02-0748 min
Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 035: Alex Yates interview (part 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...
2020-12-1741 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 034: Alex Yates interview (part 1)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...
2020-10-2942 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 033: Denis Reznik interviewDenis 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.
2020-08-201h 03Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 032: Jen Stirrup interviewJennifer 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.
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2020-06-2500 min
Geeks on Screens with CoffeeGeeks on Screens with Coffee with Kamil Nowinski (@NowinskiK)Geeks on Screens with Coffee Episode 17 - Now, tell me all the secrets about your podcast...
Look who I bumped into at the water cooler/tea room/corridor?
It's only Kamil Nowinski (@NowinskiK)
The first 40 mins is mostly me geeking out with Kamil about his podcast.
https://sqlplayer.net/
What 'toys' he uses to record it and edit it. He actually uses a professional voice over artist for the intros!!
The rest is the usual nonsense!! Enjoy
I must dash, the kettle has almost boiled.
2020-05-061h 01Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 031: Paul Andrew interviewPrincipal 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, Le...
2020-05-0243 min2020-04-1004 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 030: Benni De Jagere interviewBenni 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 Me...
2020-03-2741 min2020-03-2101 min2020-03-1401 min2020-03-0201 min2020-03-0200 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 029: Tomaz Kastrun interviewTomaž 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 De...
2020-02-2830 min2020-02-2201 min2020-02-2200 min2020-02-1501 min2020-02-1400 min2020-02-0900 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 028: Uwe Ricken interviewUwe 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 “Micr...
2020-01-311h 18Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 027: Mikael Wedham interviewMikael 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: K...
2019-11-2932 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 026: Aaron Bertrand interviewAaron 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 i...
2019-10-2558 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 025: Rob Farley interviewRob 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 fin...
2019-09-271h 08Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 024: Leila Etaati interviewLeila 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 RA...
2019-07-2638 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 023: Amit Bansal interviewAmit 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...
2019-06-2843 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 022: Guy in a Cube interview (part 2)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...
2019-05-3039 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 021: Guy in a Cube interview (part 1)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...
2019-04-2655 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 020: Pawel Potasinski interviewDo 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.
2019-03-2836 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 019: Simon Whiteley interviewHow 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 S...
2019-02-2139 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 018: Mladen Prajdic interviewHow 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 dif...
2019-01-2531 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 017: Alex Whittles interviewWhich 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...
2018-12-1457 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 016: Chris Webb interviewHow 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 P...
2018-11-2354 min
Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 015: Kalen Delaney interviewKalen 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 W...
2018-10-2241 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 014: Itzik Ben-Gan interviewItzik 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...
2018-09-2354 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 013: James Rowland Jones interviewJames 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 pla...
2018-08-2533 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 012: Rob Sewell interviewRob 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...
2018-07-1825 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 011: Grant Fritchey interviewGrant 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 re...
2018-06-2741 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 010: Dejan Sarka interviewDejan 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 f...
2018-05-3025 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 009: Pedro Lopes interviewPedro 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 d...
2018-04-1931 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 008: Michael Rys interviewMichael has been doing data processing and query languages since the 1980s. Among other things he has been representing Microsoft on the XQuery and SQL design committees and has taken SQL Server beyond relational with XML, Geospatial and Semantic Search. Currently he is working on Big Data query languages such as SCOPE and U-SQL when he is not enjoying time with his family under water, on the ski slopes, or at autocross.This talk has taken place during PASS Summit in Seattle, WA, on 2nd November 2017 (Thursday).Do you ever wonder how many people work on...
2018-03-1647 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 007: Cathrine Wilhelmsen interviewCathrine loves teaching and sharing knowledge. She works as a consultant, technical architect and developer, focusing on Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence projects. Her core skills are ETL, SSIS, Biml and T-SQL development, but she enjoys everything from programming to data visualization. Outside of work she's active in the SQL Server and PASS communities as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, BimlHero Certified Expert, author, speaker, blogger, organizer and chronic volunteer.This talk has taken place during PASS Summit in Seattle, WA, on 2nd November 2017 (Thursday).Do you want to know how Cathrine has started her adventure...
2018-02-1231 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 006: Bob Ward interviewBob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Data Group (Tiger Team) which owns the development and servicing for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 24 years supporting and speaking on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2016. He has worked in customer support as a principal escalation engineer and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) interacting with some of the largest SQL Server deployments in the world. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server often presenting talks on internals and troubleshooting at events such as SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQLIntersection, and Microsoft...
2018-01-2037 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 005: Marcin Szeliga interviewMarcin Szeliga - Data Philosopher. Since 2006 invariably awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional title in the Data Platform category. A speaker at numerous conferences across Europe, as well as at user groups meetings. The author of many books and articles devoted to Microsoft Data Platform. An independent consultant, database-centric application practitioner and architect totally focused on SQL Server and Azure. Huge fan of Data Science and Machine Learning.Listen to the story of the most experienced Polish MVP. Marcin explains his point of view on work-life balance and what is the future...This talk has taken place on 26t...
2018-01-1232 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 004: Mark Broadbent interviewThis talk was recorded after SQL Saturday #645 in Manchester, UK, on Saturday 15th July 2017.Do you know what joke is circulating around Mark's MVP award and when was the first SQL Saturday in the United Kingdom? What type of mantra does Mark profess and why he thinks himself as few emotional guy?Find out all above and more directly from the podcast of "Ask SQL Family".
2017-10-271h 08Ask SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 003: Stephanie Locke interviewThis talk was recorded after SQL Saturday #645 in Manchester, UK, on Saturday 15th July 2017.Do you want to know what is the main area of Stephanie's interesting or in what circumstances she begin her own consultancy company? How many books she can read weekly or where has she celebrated her last birthday?“Ask SQL Family” podcast discovers all answers for these non-technical questions for you.
2017-09-1647 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 002: Greg Low interviewDr Greg Low is well known in the SQL Server community, an internationally recognized consultant, trainer and author of a number of Microsoft white papers, blog posts. Greg holds a PhD in computer science, Microsoft Regional Director for Australia, a Data Platform MVP and first two MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) for SQL Server in the world. Dr Greg Low is the CEO of SQL Down Under and hosts the podcast under the same title. Outside his work, Greg’s current passion is learning to read, write, and speak Mandarin Chinese.This talk was recorded during the SQL...
2017-08-1236 minAsk SQL Family - SQL Player's showASF 001: Brent Ozar interviewBrent Ozar talks about himself, his passion, hobbies and carreer.Brent Ozar is one of the most known person in the SQL Server world. He is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Data Platform MVP. His passion and energy are shared among all people he works with. He is known as a very energetic speaker. He loves sharing his knowledge. He loves cars. He loves dogs.This talk was recorded during the SQLDay 2017 in Wrocław, on Wednesday 17th May, 8 am.
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