James is the Owner/Principal of Exorior Limited James has been working with SQL Server for thirteen years. Initially a VB6 programmer, he quickly moved into .Net and started working with SQL Server. It was love at first sight. Since then he has concentrated...

I've received a LOT of inquiries for a recommended reading list for MCSM: SharePoint over the past couple of months. Our prior pre-reading list (which is still a great but exhausting read on SharePoint-related topics) deservedly received a lot of attention...

Jason is a SQL Server database architect and Microsoft SQL Server MVP. He has over 15 years of experience developing, architecting, and managing data platforms. He is a highly-skilled database administrator with a strong background in database/data warehouse...

Owner / Principal of LobsterPot Solutions ( lobsterpot.com.au ) Blog: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley Bio:Rob Farley runsLobsterPot Solutions ( http://lobsterpot.com.au ), a Gold Partner SQL Server and Business Intelligence consultancy, a company...

Sergey has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 2000 version as a database administrator and database developer, focusing on high availability and disaster recovery solutions, ETL, troubleshooting and performance tuning. Sergey is a regular...

Justin Langford is a Principal Consultant for Coeo, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the UK. Justin works at Coeo providing consulting and support services for upgrade, performance tuning, scalability and availability solutions for SQL Server. Justin...

Gokhan Varol started his SQL Server career in 1996as a database developer for the telecommunications company NTera. On that role Gokhan was exposed to challenges typical of a centralized highly transaction systems, which generated several million events...

Simon has been working with SQLServer for 14 years now, since SQL Server 6.5. Having started out as a production DBA Simon now works as an architect for online environments. He has spent most of his time in recent years working on online advertising and...

Jacky van Hogen is working as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft in The Netherlands. She has been working with SQL Server since 2005 and specializes in SQL Server infrastructure, SQL Server performance tuning & troubleshooting and SQL Server...

Vincent DiPippo is the President of Focus24. His blogs can be found at: http://www.scomnivore.com Biography: http://www.focus24.com/vdipippo.html .

Simon Liew is currently Database Solutions Designer at Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia. Simon has a Masters Degree in Computer Science (Distributed Computing) and is passionate about SQL Server. He has more than 10 years of DBA experience...

Nick Colebourn is a Senior Consultant working for Coeo, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing SQL Server services for mission critical environments. Consulting across the product stack, Nick provides expertise for clients in architecture, implementation...

Firstand foremost, Kyle is a blessed husband of a magnificent woman and a father of 5. In an effort to support this beautiful family, he has been working with computers since 1995 in both a development and administrative capacity. For over 10 of those...

Robert Hartskeerl is working as a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Services. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2011 he worked as an architect, dba, system engineer and software programmer. His first encounter with SQL Server dates back to 2001 and SQL...

Dmitri is the Director of Development in Actsoft, Inc Dmitri is SQL Server MVP and works with SQL Server for more than 11 years. He specializes in architecture, development and performance tuning of OLTP systems. Dmitri is a regular speaker at SQL...