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His articles on different aspects of technologies, especially on MS BI, can be found on his blog: https://radacad.com/blog.
He wrote some books on MS SQL BI and also is writing some others, He was also an active member on online technical forums such as MSDN and Experts-Exchange, and was a moderator of MSDN SQL Server forums, and is an MCP, MCSE, and MCITP of BI. He is the leader of the New Zealand Business Intelligence users group. He is also the author of very popular book Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star, which is free with more than 1700 pages of content and the Power BI Pro Architecture published by Apress.
He is an International Speaker in Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Data Insight Summit, PASS Summit, SQL Saturday and user groups. And He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
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Connect to Reza
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rezarad/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/radacad
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rad_Reza
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RADACAD_COM
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DifinityConf
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Reza’s passion is to help you find the best data solution, he is Data enthusiast.
Ask Reza about these technologies and areas;
- Power BI
- Power Query
DAX - Data Visualization
- Architecture, Security, Sharing, and Power BI Service
- Power BI Embedded
- SQL Server BI Suite (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, MDS, DQS)
- Dimensional Modeling
- ETL
- Data Warehouse
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Catalog
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Data Architecture
When Reza is not doing data related work, his hobbies are;
- Watching Lord of the Rings and Star Wars again!
- Playing classical guitar
- Playing fetch games with Khersi (Big Akita dog)
Feel free to contact Reza here.
Certifications:

Business Intelligence Database Administrator














Reza:
I respect your contributions to community and commitment to the Microsoft BI Stack and your knowledge of all things Power BI.
To that end, would you be so kind as to read the post at the following link and share your comments regarding such with me as well as the Power BI team.
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/15708798-power-bi-enterprise-gateway-fails-to-set-session-c
I believe I’ve made a salient case for the need for a fix to what I believe to be a critical design flaw in the implementation of the Power BI Enterprise Gateway when connecting to SQL Server 2016 or Azure SQL DB or Azure SQL DW.
Thank you for your consideration and learned reply.
Respectfully,
Darryll Petrancuri
@SQLArchitect