Acknowledgments
This book benefited from a large and wide variety of people, ideas, input, and efforts. I’d like to acknowledge several of them and apologize in advance to those I may have forgotten—I hope you guys will understand.
My heartfelt and biggest THANKS perhaps, is to Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) for his help on this book project. Without Andy, this book wouldn’t have been a reality. Thanks Andy, for trusting me and making it possible for me to realize my dream. I truly appreciate the great work you and Linchpin People are doing for the SQL Server and BI community, helping SQL Server to be a better product each day.
Thanks to the folks at Apress, Ana and Jonathan for their patience; Roger for his excellent, accurate, and insightful copy ...
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