About the Authors
Jason Brimhall is first and foremost a family man. He has 15+ years of experience in IT and has worked with SQL Server starting with SQL Server 6.5. He has worked for both large and small companies in varied industries. He has experience in performance tuning, high transaction environments, large environments, and VLDBs. He is currently a database architect and an MCITP for SQL 2008. Jason regularly volunteers for PASS and is the VP of the Las Vegas User Group (SSSOLV). You can read more from Jason on his blog at http://jasonbrimhall.info.
David Dye is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, instructor, and author specializing in relational database management systems, business intelligence systems, reporting solutions, and Microsoft SharePoint. For the past nine years David’s expertise has been focused on Microsoft SQL Server development and administration. His work has earned him recognition as a Microsoft MVP in 2009 and 2010, as a moderator for the Microsoft Developer Network for SQL Server forums, as an Innovator of the Year runner-up in 2009 by SQL Server Magazine, and in the Training Associates Technical Trainer Spotlight in April 2011. David currently serves as a technical reviewer and coauthor for Apress in the SQL Server 2012 series and as an author with Packt Publishing.
Jonathan Gennick is an Apress assistant editorial director with responsibility for database topics. He is line-leader for Apress’s Oracle and SQL Server lines. He publishes carefully chosen database books of a general nature. He maintains a keen interest in books across all lines that touch upon relational databases.
Andy Roberts is a data platform technology specialist (TS) for Microsoft in the Northeast district. Prior to his life as a TS, Andy spent 12 years as a consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services. As a consultant, Andy assisted customers in implementing mission-critical OLTP and DW/BI solutions on SQL Server. Andy wore many hats as a consultant including application developer, solution architect, mentor to development teams, mentor to DBAs, BI lead, SCRUM master, and guy-that-knows-a-bunch-of-stuff-about-Microsoft.
When not basking behind the glow of his laptop, Andy enjoys volunteering as a ski instructor at Maine Adaptive Sports, golfing, biking, and, of course, trying to reverse engineer his five-month-old son, Max, to see what makes him work.
Wayne Sheffield started working with databases in the late 1980s, using DBase, Foxbase, and FoxPro. With more than 20 years in the IT industry, he has worked with SQL Server database systems (starting from version 6.5) since the late 1990s in various development and administration roles, with an emphasis in performance tuning. He is author of several articles at www.sqlservercentral.com and enjoys sharing his knowledge by presenting at various SQL PASS events and posting on his blog at http://blog.waynesheffield.com/wayne.