About the Author

Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software, a market leading software-tools vendor, as its product evangelist. He’s done development of large-scale applications in languages such as VB, C#, and Java; and he has worked in SQL Server since version 6.0. In addition, he has worked in insurance, finance, and consulting, as well as for three failed dot coms. He is the author of SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple Talk Publishing, 2008) and SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Apress, 2008). Grant is a co-author of Beginning SQL Server Administration (Apress, 2009) and has one chapter in SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Volume 2 (Manning, 2011).