CHRISTIAN BOLTON is the Technical Director for
Coeo Ltd., a leading provider of SQL Server consulting and managed
support services in the UK and Europe. Prior to this Christian
worked for 5 years at Microsoft, leading the SQL Server Premier
Field Engineering team in the UK. He is a Microsoft Certifi ed
Architect, Master and MVP for SQL Server, and co-author of
Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning. He works out of
London and lives in the south of England with his wife and
children. He can be contacted at christian@coeo.com. Christian
authored chapters 1, 2, 7, 13 and the online chapter 16 in addition
to lending his authoring expertise where needed on other chapters
and functioned as the lead author for the entire project.
JUSTIN LANGFORD leads the Managed Support team
for Coeo Ltd, delivering outsourced 24x7 operations for
mission-critical SQL Server platforms. Before joining Coeo, Justin
worked for Microsoft in the Premier Field Engineering team and has
worked with some of Microsoft's largest fi nance and government
customers in Europe. Justin co-authored Wrox Professional SQL
Server 2005 Performance Tuning and lives in London with his
girlfriend, Claire. Outside work he enjoys sailing and has a keen
interest in classic British sports cars. Justin can be contacted at
justinl@coeo.com. Justin authored chapters 9, 11, 12, and 15.
BRENT OZAR is a SQL Server Expert for Quest
Software. He has over a decade of broad IT experience, performing
SQL Server database administration, systems administration, SAN
administration, virtualization administration, and project
management. In his current role, Brent trains DBAs on performance
tuning, disaster recovery, and virtualization. He has spoken around
the globe at events for PASS, SQLBits, SSWUG, and other
organizations. Brent founded the Virtualization Virtual Chapter for
the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), and serves as
the Editor-in-Chief at SQLServerPedia.com. Brent blogs at
www.BrentOzar.com and discusses diverse topics at
http://twitter.com/BrentO. When he's not talking SQL Server, he
enjoys traveling, working with social media, snorkeling, and
sampling new restaurants. He is the author of chapters 4 and
14.
JAMES ROWLAND-JONES works for EMC Consulting
EMEA as an Advisory Consultant. His principle focus is the delivery
of large, scalable, data warehousing, and business intelligence
projects. Within this fi eld James specializes in data integration,
database architecture, and performance tuning. He is very active in
the technical community and is one of the organizers for SQLBits,
Europe's largest SQL Server community conference. James has
received the Microsoft MVP award for 2009 and 2010. You can fi nd
him online at http://consultingblogs.emc.com/jamesrowlandjones,
twitter (@jrowlandjones), linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jrowlandjones, or even using an old
fashioned email, james.rowland-jones@emc.com. James authored
chapters 6 and 10.
JONATHAN KEHAYIAS is a SQL Server MVP, MCITP
Database Administrator and Developer, who got started in SQL Server
in 2004 as a database developer and report writer in the natural
gas industry. After spending two and a half years working in T-SQL,
in late 2006, he transitioned to the role of Database
Administrator. He has experience in upgrading and consolidating SQL
environments, and has experience in running SQL Server in Virtual
Environments on VMWare ESX 3.5+. He is a member of the Tampa SQL
Server User Group and a regular speaker about SQL Server at events.
Jonathan authored chapter 3.
CINDY GROSS started her SQL Server life as a
DBA with a hospital and health plan company in 1993, and moved to
Microsoft in 2000 where she has worked ever since. Her roles at
Microsoft have included PSS Product Support Engineer, SQL Content
Lead, Yukon Readiness Lead, and most recently Dedicated Support
Engineer (DSE), all for SQL Server. Cindy enjoys delivering
training throughout the United States as well as in Europe and
India, including presentations at SQL PASS. In 2008 she started the
Boise SQL Server User Group, an affi liate of the SQLCommunity.org
site (where she is a worldwide SQL Server Community Leader) to
share SQL Server wisdom in the Idaho SQL Server community. Most
recently she obtained the Microsoft Certifi ed Master: SQL Server
Qualifi cation, which was a hard-fought prize. Over the years Cindy
has learned from many wonderful friends and colleagues and they all
deserve a word of thanks for contributing to her success. Cindy
authored chapter 8.
STEVEN WORT has been working with SQL Server
since the early days of SQL Server way back in 1992-93. He is
currently a developer in the Windows Division at Microsoft, where
he works on performance and scalability issues on large database
systems for the Windows Telemetry team. Steven has been at
Microsoft since 2000. Prior to working in the Windows Division,
Steven spent 2 years working in the SQL Server group, working on
performance and scalability. Steven's fi rst 3 years at Microsoft
were spent working in support as an escalation engineer on the SIE
team. During this time, Steven was able to travel the world working
with some of Microsoft's customers on their performance and
scalability issues. Before coming to Microsoft, Steven spent 20
years working in the United Kingdom as a freelance consultant,
specializing in database application development. When Steven isn't
busy working, he can be found spending time with his family and
enjoying many fi tness activities in the outdoors of the Pacifi c
Northwest. Steven authored chapter 5.