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Russ Thomas

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Currently an IT leader in Denver Colorado's financial sector Russ has focused on database engineering, modelling, administration, and BI since 1997 across the Microsoft stack. Russ is a passionate trainer and SQL community volunteer presenting regularly at PASS SQL Saturday events and local user groups around the US. In 2019 much of Russ' focus turned to cloud based data lakes specifically on Google BigQuery.

Courses Authored

9

Topics Authored

Data Professional
Software Development

Total Ratings

754

Avg Course Ratings

4.7

Courses by Russ

  • Complex Many-to-many Relationships with Graph in SQL Server
    Course
    Complex Many-to-many Relationships with Graph in SQL Server
    Beginner
    1h 31m
    Dec 23, 2021
  • Administering Microsoft SQL Server Availability Groups
    Course
    Administering Microsoft SQL Server Availability Groups
    Intermediate
    3h 51m
    Dec 5, 2019
  • High-performance Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift
    Course
    High-performance Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift
    Intermediate
    2h 33m
    Aug 8, 2018
  • Building Your First Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse
    Course
    Building Your First Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse
    Intermediate
    2h 40m
    Mar 9, 2018
  • SQL Server Standard Edition Survival Guide
    Course
    SQL Server Standard Edition Survival Guide
    Intermediate
    2h 30m
    Jul 12, 2017
  • Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
    Course
    Practical SQL Server Security, Compliance, and Auditing
    Intermediate
    3h 40m
    Jan 6, 2017
  • Practical SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Tables and Objects
    Course
    Practical SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Tables and Objects
    Intermediate
    2h 50m
    May 13, 2016
  • Practical SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
    Course
    Practical SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery
    Intermediate
    4h 39m
    Dec 30, 2015
  • Entity Framework 6 Database Performance Anti-patterns
    Course
    Entity Framework 6 Database Performance Anti-patterns
    Intermediate
    1h 59m
    Jun 5, 2015

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