Acknowledgments

I’ve enjoyed very much my small contribution to this work. I’m thus grateful first to my coauthors—Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Wayne Sheffield, and Andy Roberts—for tolerating my presence in their book. I love the magic of working in SQL but as an editor don’t often get the chance to go hands-on. Thanks, guys, for allowing me that chance once again.

Gratitude also is due to Donna, Jeff, and Jenny Gennick; Justin Miller; Karl and Ryan Olson; Lizzy Olson; Elijah Nieman; and Larry Treul. These are my family and friends who endured (sometimes unknowingly so!) the fallout from my spending time on the book. I’m grateful to Jeremiah Wilton for answering some questions about Amazon Web Services, which I made use of in the writing of this book. Thanks finally to technical reviewers Alastair Aitchison, Joe Sack, and Jay Visnansky for their consistent good help in reading the chapters, testing the code, and providing feedback to improve the work.

–Jonathan Gennick

I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked on this book. I appreciate very much the opportunity to work with my coauthors—Jonathan Gennick, David Dye, Wayne Sheffield, and Andy Roberts. I love working with SQL Server and doing what I can to share that enthusiasm with fellow SQL Server professionals.

Much gratitude is due to my wife, Krista, and our children. Krista and ATW Photography were gracious enough to provide photography services to me for this book—thank you! I am thankful to Jerry and Sheila Hurst who were influential to me. Many thanks to extended family and friends who also contributed in many different ways while I worked on this book (mostly unknowingly)!

Thanks finally to technical reviewers Alastair Aitchison, Joe Sack, and Jay Visnansky for their hard work in reading the chapters, testing the code, and providing feedback to improve the work.

–Jason Brimhall

I deeply appreciate the opportunity to have worked on this book. The entire team, from the other coauthors (Jason Brimhall, David Dye, Jonathan Gennick, and Andy Roberts), the technical reviewers (Alastair Aitchison, Joe Sack, and Jay Visnansky), and all of the Apress staff working diligently behind the scenes, contributed to make this book the fine finished product you are now reading. It was indeed a pleasure to work with all of these professionals.

To my wife, Karen—the words “thank you” are so insufficient for all of the hours that this project took me away from you. I guess I owe you that cruise.

–Wayne Sheffield

I would like to thank the team for this chance to contribute to such a great book. It has been fun to revisit some old concepts and think about how to apply some of the new features of SQL Server to problems that we all face every day. I would also like to thank Tim Roberts, who one day in 1996 dropped 1,200 pages of SQL Server reference material on my desk and said, “I need to you be a SQL Expert tomorrow.” One long night of reading and 16 years of practice later, here I am.

–Andy Roberts