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Contributors

About the authors

Christian Cote is an IT professional with more than 15 years of experience working on data warehouse, big data, and business intelligence projects. Christian has developed expertise in data warehousing and data lakes over the years and has designed many ETL/BI processes using a range of tools on multiple platforms. He's presented at several conferences and code camps. He currently co-leads the SQL Server PASS chapter. He is also a Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Matija Lah has more than 18 years of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, mostly from architecting data-centric solutions in the legal domain. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to him being awarded the MVP Professional award (Data Platform) between 2007 and 2017/2018. He spends most of his time on projects involving advanced information management and natural language processing, but often finds time to speak at events related to Microsoft SQL Server where he loves to share his experience with the SQL Server platform.

Madina Saitakhmetova is a developer specializing in BI. She has been in IT for 15 years, working with Microsoft SQL, .NET, Microsoft BI, Azure, and building BI solutions for medical, educational, and engineering companies. Her adventure with Microsoft BI began with Analysis Services and SSIS, and in later years she has been building her expertise in ETL/ELT, both on-premises and in the cloud. Finding patterns, automating processes, and making BI teams work more efficiently are challenges that drive her. During the past few years, BIML has become an important part of her work, increasing its efficiency and quality.

About the reviewers

Steph Martin is a senior customer engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team at Microsoft. She has a background in SQL Server database design and development and extensive knowledge of SSIS and ETL patterns and practices. Steph helps customers to achieve success with their projects, providing architecture design reviews, best practice guidance, and in-depth knowledge sharing across the platform, covering migration to Azure as well as cloud-first deployments. She has wide-ranging experience of Azure data services, specializing in Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, and Azure Data Factory. Steph is an active member of the data platform community, running a PASS affiliated meetup in the UK and helping to co-ordinate the volunteer team at SQLBits.

Aaditya Pokkunuri is an experienced Senior Database Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in information technology and services industry. He is skilled in performance tuning, SQL Database, requirements analysis, databases, and servers, SSIS, and SSRS. He possesses strong knowledge on Clustering, SQL server high-availability options, and ITIL of processes. Aaditya's expertise lies in Windows administration tasks, active directory, and Microsoft Azure technologies. He is a strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Technology degree, specializing in computer science and engineering from SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu.

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