John L. Viescas is an independent database consultant with
more than 50 years of experience. He began his career as a systems
analyst, designing large database applications for IBM mainframe
systems. He spent 6 years at Applied Data Research in Dallas,
Texas, where he directed a staff of more than 30 people and was
responsible for research, product development, and customer support
of database products for IBM mainframe computers. While working at
Applied Data Research, John completed a degree in business finance
at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating cum laude.
John joined Tandem Computers, Inc., in 1988, where he was
responsible for the development and implementation of database
marketing programs in Tandem’s U.S. Western Sales region. He
developed and delivered technical seminars on Tandem’s relational
database management system, NonStop SQL. John wrote his first book,
A Quick Reference Guide to SQL (Microsoft Press, 1989), as a
research project to document the similarities in the syntax among
the ANSI-86 SQL standard, IBM’s DB2, Microsoft’s SQL Server, Oracle
Corporation’s Oracle, and Tandem’s NonStop SQL. He wrote the first
edition of Running Microsoft Access (Microsoft Press, 1992) while
on sabbatical from Tandem. He has since written four editions of
Running, three editions of Microsoft Office Access Inside Out
(Microsoft Press, 2003, 2007, and 2010–the successor to the Running
series), Building Microsoft Access Applications (Microsoft Press,
2005), and Effective SQL (Addison-Wesley, 2017).
John formed his own company in 1993. He provides information
systems management consulting for a variety of small to large
businesses around the world, with a specialty in the Microsoft
Access and SQL Server database management products. He maintains
offices in Nashua, New Hampshire, and Paris, France. He was
recognized as a “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) from 1993 to
2015 by Microsoft Product Support Services for his assistance with
technical questions on public support forums. He set a landmark 20
consecutive years as an MVP in 2013.
You can visit John’s Web site at www.viescas.com.
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