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And last but not least, I would like to thank my Microsoft mentors who assisted

with my career development and transition to the Microsoft Technology Center in

Silicon Valley: Kelly Oliver, Alex Viera, Buck Woody, Kevin Tsai, and Burzin Patel.

—Ross Mistry

he chapters of Part II covering the BI features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

are more complete and more accurate thanks to the efforts of the members

of each product team who graciously participated in the review process. I’d like to

thank the following people for their contributions:

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Barbara Kess, Senior

Technical Writer; Christian Kleinerman, Principal Product Unit Manager;

Paul Dyke, Principal Architect; Richard Tkachuk, Principal Program Man-

ager; Sadek Noureddine, Software Development Engineer; and Edward

Melomed, Senior Program Manager

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services John McAllister, Principal

Group Program Manager; Reagan Templin, Technical Writer; and Val Lovicz,

Principal Program Manager

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SQL Server StreamInsight Mark Simms, Senior Program Manager, Ap-

plication Platform Customer Advisory Team

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Thierry D’Hers, Group Pro-

gram Manager; Neeraja Divakaruni, Program Manager; Carolyn Chau, Prin-

cipal Program Manager Lead; Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager;

Yi Liao, Senior Program Manager; Prash Shirolkar, Program Manager; Sean

Boon, Senior Program Manager; and Robert Bruckner, Senior Software

Development Engineer

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SQL Server PowerPivot Dave Wickert, Principal Program Manager

I’d also like to thank Sabrena McBride, Senior Product Manager, for her review

of the entire book.

Last, but not least, I’d like to thank Ken Jones, former product planner, for

inviting me to this project; Karen Szall, developmental editor, for helping us get

started; and Maria Gargiulo, project editor, for patiently but rmly guiding us

through the remainder of the project. I also thank Kathy Krause, Rozanne Whalen,

and Kathleen Atkins for their roles during the copyediting, technical review, and

proofreading processes. And nally, my thanks go also to Ross Mistry for his work

on the chapters of Part I and his encouragement during the inevitable challenges

related to working with pre-release software on a tight schedule.

Please accept our apologies if we missed anyone.

—Stacia Misner