Rick is an independent consultant, speaker and author, specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), application integration and database technology. He is managing director and founder of R20/Consultancy. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker who has lectured worldwide for the last 25 years. He is the chairman of the successful annual European Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Conference held in London and the annual BI event in The Netherlands. Currently, he is promoting a new architecture for data warehousing called the Data Delivery Platform. He is the author of several books on computing, including the popular Introduction to SQL. Some of his books are available in English, Chinese, Dutch, Italian and German. He is also the author of the successful books SQL for MySQL Developers and The SQL Guide to Ingres. Rick may be contacted by sending an email to info@r20.nl.

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