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Victor Ebai is a business intelligence consultant and has almost twelve years of experience in the business intelligence industry in database, report, data warehouse, and SQL query development. SQL performance tuning is a passion of Victor’s, and he’s won corporate optimization awards. He was educated in Coventry, United Kingdom, where he currently resides.

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