About the Authors

Jason Strate is a principal consultant with Pragmatic Works. He’s been working with data platforms for almost 20 years. He has been a recipient of Microsoft’s “Most Valuable Professional” award for Data Platform, formerly SQL Server, since July 2009. His experience includes design and implementation of both transaction and data warehouse solutions, as well as assessment and implementation of data platform environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions.

Jason is an active member of the SQL Server community. He currently serves as co-chapter leader for the PASS Cloud Virtual Chapter. In the community, he presents on SQL Server and related topics at local, regional, and national events including SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. He also blogs at www.jasonstrate.com and can be contacted with his Twitter handle @stratesql.

Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, works for Redgate Software, a market-leading software-tools vendor, as its product evangelist. He has developed large-scale applications using languages such as VB, C#, and Java, and he has worked in SQL Server since version 6.0. He has worked in insurance, finance, and consulting, as well as three failed dot-coms. Grant is the author of SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple Talk, 2012) and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress, 2014). He has contributed chapters to SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2 (Manning, 2012) and Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices (Apress, 2012). Grant presents on various SQL Server and data-related topics at large conferences and small user groups around the world.