Thomas Hütter

Thomas holds a degree in Business Economics, but has been a data explorer and a developer at heart ever since the days of dBase and Turbo Pascal. He touched his first SQL Server at V6.5, used covering indexes before they became a feature and joined the PASS community in 2006. Thomas has been developing in Navision/Dynamics/Business Central systems for quite some time (since 2001, one year before MS acquired Navision), got his hands on R in 2014 (the year before MS bought Revolution Analytics), on the Power Platform from 2020 and the Arduino world from 2024 on. He has worked for ISVs as well as end-user companies, as a developer, consultant, accidental data engineer and is an author for data-related articles as well as a speaker at data events across Europe.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

Window functions in SQL Server - brush up your skills

Wether you're a newbie or a seasoned developer, now is the time to brush up your window function skills. Get to know this "advanced" toolset in order to ease and optimize the development of your data analysis queries in T-SQL.

Previous Sessions

A journey through the Tidyverse

An introduction to the philosophy of tidy data and the collection of R packages called Tidyverse that help to treat your data appropriately. Including lots of demos from ingesting to cleaning to visualizing your data.

An R primer for SQL folks

A walk-through on what is possible analyzing your data with the "R" language.

50 ways to show your data

„A picture is worth a thousand words“ - compelling visualizations beyond the usual bar, line or scatter plots, produced with the help of the ggplot2 package and friends.