Russ Thomas

Pluralsight Author

Currently an IT leader in Boulder Colorado, Russ has been in data engineering, modelling, administration, and architecture since 1997. Russ is a passionate trainer and community volunteer presenting regularly at tech events and local user groups around the US.

Topics Authored

Data Professional

Business Professional

Software Development

Courses Authored

Total Ratings

845

Avg Course Ratings

4.6

Courses by Russ

All Courses Labs

Course

Security and Compliance in SQL Server 2025

Intermediate

1h 16m

Aug 28, 2026

Course

Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude

Intermediate

1h 1m

Jun 09, 2026

Course

Creating Synthetic Datasets with Generative AI

Intermediate

32m

Mar 30, 2026

Course

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer: Ensuring Data Protection by Pluralsight

Advanced

1h 24m

Feb 21, 2026

Course

Visualizing Data and Storytelling with Generative AI

Intermediate

23m

Jan 27, 2026

Course

Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner: Data Management

Intermediate

56m

Dec 18, 2025

Course

Generative AI for Interviewees

Beginner

19m

Nov 14, 2025

Course

Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner: Data Pipeline Orchestration

Intermediate

50m

Nov 07, 2025

Course

Apache Iceberg Governance and Access Controls

Intermediate

29m

Oct 13, 2025

Course

Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner: Data Analysis and Presentation

Intermediate

57m

Sep 19, 2025

Course

Rollbacks, Time Travel, and Disaster Recovery with Apache Iceberg

Intermediate

31m

Sep 05, 2025

Course

Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner: Data Preparation and Ingestion

Intermediate

59m

Jul 15, 2025

Course

Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner Certification Essentials

Beginner

25m

Jul 15, 2025

Course

Understanding Apache Iceberg Architecture

Intermediate

32m

Jun 30, 2025

Course

Introduction to Apache Iceberg

Intermediate

27m

May 19, 2025

Course

Prompt Engineering for Claude

Intermediate

17m

Apr 18, 2025

Course

AIOps: Observability and Explainability for Production Models

Intermediate

20m

Feb 21, 2025

Course

Data Visualization with ggplot2 in R

Beginner

48m

Dec 11, 2024

Course

Data Transformation with Power Query in Microsoft Excel

Intermediate

47m

Sep 05, 2024

Course

Database Design for Data Engineers

Beginner

48m

May 31, 2024

(19)

Course

Predictive Analysis with SQL Server

Beginner

31m

Mar 22, 2024

Course

Advanced Text Generation and Analysis with LLMs

Intermediate

38m

Feb 08, 2024

Course

Introduction to Large Language Models for Data Practitioners

Intermediate

39m

Jan 04, 2024

(22)

Course

Visualizing Data with Generative AIRETIRED

Beginner

13m

Jul 30, 2026

Course

Creating Synthetic Datasets with Generative AIRETIRED

Beginner

15m

Jul 30, 2026

Course

Prompt Engineering for Developers with Claude 3RETIRED

Beginner

20m

Apr 29, 2025

Course

High-performance Data Warehousing with Amazon RedshiftRETIRED

Intermediate

2h 34m

Apr 16, 2025

(21)

Course

Building Your First Amazon Redshift Data WarehouseRETIRED

Beginner

2h 40m

Apr 15, 2025

(73)

Course

Practical SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Tables and ObjectsRETIRED

Advanced

2h 50m

Jul 12, 2024

(40)

Course

Administering Microsoft SQL Server Availability GroupsRETIRED

Intermediate

3h 52m

Jul 12, 2024

(72)

Course

Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and AuditingRETIRED

Intermediate

3h 40m

Jul 12, 2024

(45)

Course

Complex Many-to-many Relationships with Graph in SQL ServerRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 31m

Jul 12, 2024

(12)

Course

SQL Server Standard Edition Survival GuideRETIRED

Intermediate

2h 31m

Jul 12, 2024

(12)

Course

Practical SQL Server High Availability and Disaster RecoveryRETIRED

Intermediate

4h 40m

Jul 12, 2024

(123)

Course

Entity Framework 6 Database Performance Anti-patternsRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 59m

Jun 24, 2024

(396)