Haroon Ashraf

Haroon Ashraf
Haroon Ashraf's interests are Database-Centric Architectures and his expertise includes development, testing, implementation and migration along with Database Life Cycle Management (DLM).

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Haroon Ashraf's deep interest in logic and reasoning at an early age of his academic career paved his path to become a data professional.

He holds BSc (Gold Medal) and MSc Degrees in Computer Science and also received the OPF merit award.

His programming career began in 2006 working on his first data venture to migrate and rewrite a public sector database driven examination system from IBM AS400 (DB2) to SQL Server 2000 using VB 6.0 and Classic ASP along with developing reports and archiving many years of data.

His work and interest revolves around Business Intelligence and Database Centric Architectures and his expertise include database and reports design, development, testing, implementation and migration.

He has recently earned "Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business" certificate from The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.

2020 Awards   MSSQLTips award   MSSQLTips award

2019 Awards   MSSQLTips award

2018 Awards   MSSQLTips award

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Azure Azure Data Catalog Tutorial and Overview - Part 1
Azure Microsoft Azure Analysis Services Web Development Tools
Azure Microsoft Azure Analysis Services Web Development Tools - Part 2
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Database Design Branching in Git with SQL Database Projects
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DevOps Adding Reference Data in Database Continuous Integration (CI) Pipeline
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DevOps SQL Server Reference Data Best Practices - Part 1
DevOps SQL Server Reference Data Best Practices - Part 2
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Integration Services Development Create Custom SSIS Execution Log - Part 1
Integration Services Development Create Custom SSIS Execution Log - Part 2
Integration Services Development Error Handling in SSIS Data Flow Task - Part 1
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