Clas started working with SQL Server (6.5) in 1995 and has never lost his addiction to it. Since more than 13 years he is now located at the SAP headquarter in Germany and is doing worldwide consulting and development support for SAP and SAP customers running on SQL Server of all releases. He is contributor...

Sean has been working exclusively with SQL Server since 2008. His first foray into the world of SQL Server was migrating a database from another RDBMS system to SQL Server 2005. Decided having liked SQL Server he pursued a career as a DBA as hasn't looked back. Sharing knowledge, learning, and helping...

Due to the upcoming retirement of our MCM exams, and our desire to provide our candidates with enough time to complete the process that they have invested in heavily, effective immediately the following changes are being put into place. If you are retaking an MCM exam for the first time (i.e. you...

Jameel has an extensive background in best practices,performance monitoring & tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and Business Intelligence solutions. He loves a challenge and prides on creating innovative solutions by using an arsenal of technologies at his disposal. He has also...

Jon has worked primarily with SQL Server since leaving his studies back in 2001. It was while studying for his degree that his passion for data really developed and helped to guide him on his career path. Now based in Bristol in the South West of England he enjoys nothing more than working and helping...

Jason is first and foremost a family man. He has 15+ yrs 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...

Wayne Sheffield started working with databases in the late 1980's, using xBase languages. With over 20 years in IT, he has worked with SQL Server (since 6.5 in the late 1990's) in various development and administrative roles, with an emphasis in performance tuning. He is the author of several articles...

Patrick is a reformed developer who discovered SQL Server when Access and Excel became too limiting. He is currently employed as Senior SQL Server DBA at Link Market Services Limited His first exposure to SQL Server was using version 7.0 as a Visual Basic 6 programmer but only became a full-time...

Evgeny Garaev has been working as database administrator since 2005. He started his career as Oracle DBA in 2005. In 2008 he decided to become MS SQL Server DBA. Since then Evgeny has been working as MS SQL Server database administrator, developer and architect. He specializes in database architecture...

Paul is a freelance SQL Server professional who first started working with SQL Server 14 years ago. His first exposure to SQL Server was using version 7.0 as a Visual Basic 5/6 programmer. He continued on using .Net and C# working on Windows forms and web site development before moving on to concentrate...

Sergiu is a Senior Consultant - SQL Server with RockSolid SQL. Sergiu graduated from University with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications. He started as a research scientist in the telecommunications field and later while working as a specialist for RomTelecom – Bucharest, Sergiu...

Warner is a SQL Server Team Lead at Pythian, a global Canadian-based company specialized in DBA services. A brief stint in .NET programming led to his early DBA formation working for enterprise customers in Hewlett-Packard ITO organization. From there he transitioned to his current position at...

David Levy is a developer turned DBA. He began his career in 2000 after graduation from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Operations Management and Information Systems with an Emphasis in Information Systems. After several years of increasingly complex development work David moved into...

Ben Miller is an Enterprise DBA Architect working for HealthEquity Inc. in Draper, Utah. HealthEquity ( http://www.healthequity.com ) is one of the largest HSA (Health Savings Account) providers in the nation. Ben is responsible for the scalability and performance of all databases in the company. ...

Please watch your inbox for an invite to hear Darmadi Komo and Luis Daniel Soto Maldonado present the SQL Server Roadmap. This event will occur next week. I am working on finalizing the time. You must have an active NDA in place in order to attend. You may not Tweet, blog, Facebook, PIntrest etc...

Currently for the MCM SQL Server 2008 Knowledge Exam, there is a built in delay in the test taker getting their results. This is due to the fact that the exam was listed as Beta during publishing to Prometric. There is then a once a month rescored that occurs, with your results being sent to you in the...

These pages will outline the topics covered by the Knowledge and Lab Exams for the MCSM: Data Platform Certification http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=88-986&Locale=en-us http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=88-987&Locale=en-us

The newest MCSM Knowledge exam was released to Prometric yesterday and you can begin scheduling your exams at any time. If you are a current MCM SQL Server 2008, we are still trying to get the adminstration tasks accomplished to grant you the MCSM: Charter Data Platform certification. You will...

In coordination with the SQL Server Product Group and the Data Platform Group I am pleased to announce that we will be providing access to the Data Platform Advisors Yammer group to all SQL Server MCMs and MCAs. Ok, what does that mean to me? The Data Platform Advisors is a Yammer Group that connects...

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 on SQL Server, specialising in development...

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 architecture and best practices, business...

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 providing consulting services and training in...

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 speaker at SQL Server user group meetings and SQL...

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 is an MVP and has co-authored SQL Server five...

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 per day. Later Gokhan took on traditional DBA...