Sam Lester is a 16-year Microsoft employee, currently working in Germany as a Data and Artificial Intelligence Premier Field Engineer, specializing in data platform and business intelligence. Prior to this role, he worked for 11 years in the SQL Server product group in Redmond, Washington, developing and testing features for the database engine, manageability, and integration. Sam has been working with SQL Server since 1999 and is passionate about business intelligence and contributing in the broader technical community.