About the Authors

Bob Beauchemin is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and Director of Developer Skills for SQL-skills. He’s been an application developer and DBA with relational databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2, as well as nonrelational databases including IMS/DB and IDMS. Over the past two years, he’s been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to 500 students worldwide through the Ascend program. Bob is lead author of A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers and author of Essential ADO.NET (both from Addison-Wesley), and has written articles on SQL Server and other databases, database security, ADO.NET, and OLE DB.

Dan Sullivan runs his own consulting company. His work in the computer industry has stretched from hardware development, such the design of audio processing systems and Digital Equipment’s PDP-11 computers, to software development for manufacturing automation and image processing products driven by databases. Dan has worked with many operating systems, including the first versions of DOS, Windows, and NT. He has worked with SQL Server since it was first distributed by Microsoft and ran on OS2. Dan has been a speaker at .NET Framework user groups and WinDev, has developed several programming courses, and currently does training for Pluralsight. Dan is the coauthor of A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers (Addison-Wesley), and his articles have appeared in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine. His current interests include the .NET Framework, SQL Server, XML, and the new Microsoft technologies for building distributed systems.