About the Author

Adam Aspin is an independent business intelligence (BI) consultant based in the United Kingdom. He has worked with a range of Microsoft products for 25 years. During this time, he has developed several dozen reporting and analysis systems based on SQL Server, Access, Excel and SharePoint.

A graduate of Oxford University, Adam began his career in publishing before moving into IT. Databases soon became a passion, and his experience in this arena ranges from dBase to Oracle, and Access to MySQL, with occasional sorties into the world of DB2. He is, however, most at home in the Microsoft universe when using SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and more recently, the Microsoft self-service business intelligence suite and Power BI.

Business intelligence has been his principal focus for the last 15 years. He has applied his skills for a range of clients, including J.P. Morgan, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Tesco, Centrica, Harrods, Vodafone, Crédit Agricole, Cartier, the RAC and EMC Conchango.

Adam has been a frequent contributor to SQLServerCentral.com for several years; he has written numerous articles for various French IT publications; he has spoken at various SQL Server events including SQLBits; and he is the author of SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes (Apress 2012).

A fluent French speaker, Adam has worked in France and Switzerland for many years.

Contact him at [email protected].