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SQLServerPedia exists because these database professionals are dedicated to helping you find the answers you need. There's a ton of members of the community, but here we highlight three groups of people making the magic happen:
- Editors - the content gatekeepers. Editors have 10 or more years of database experience, and they help make sure that what you read in the wiki is always top notch.
- Bloggers - the folks who write blog entries. Typically these focus on breaking issues that we see in the field.
- Contributors - people who've written at least 10 new articles in the wiki. These people have taken time out of their lives to help enhance the SQL Server community knowledge base and make you a better database administrator or developer.
Editors
Editors help by moderating new submissions, fleshing out existing articles, writing new articles, and focusing on a specific area of the database community. They've volunteered their time to help other database administrators get the best training and troubleshooting help possible.
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Editor-in-chief basically means that Brent keeps the pipes unclogged and makes sure the rest of the editors have the tools they need in order to help the community.
Brent is a SQL Server Domain Expert with Quest Software. Brent has a decade of broad IT experience, performing systems administration and project management before moving into database administration. In his current role, Brent specializes in performance tuning, disaster recovery and automating SQL Server management. Previously, Brent spent 2 years at Southern Wine & Spirits, a Miami-based wine & spirits distributor. Brent has experience conducting training sessions, has written several technical articles, and blogs prolifically at http://www.BrentOzar.com.
Contact Brent if you want to help out with the community by editing a new section, if something seems wrong with the site in general, or if you'd like us to add a new feature to the site to help you with your job.
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Allan Mitchell, SSIS Editor
Allan Mitchell is the joint owner of Konesans Ltd, a small UK based consultancy specializing in SQL Server, and most importantly SQL Server Integration Services. Having been working with SQL Server from 6.5 onwards, he has extensive experience in many aspects of SQL Server, but now focuses on the BI suite of tools. He is a recognised SQL Server MVP and co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, a book written for developers, DBAs, and casual users who hope to use SSIS for transforming data, creating a workflow or maintaining their SQL Server environment. Allan is a member of the SQLBits management committee – the largest SQL Server community event in Europe, and a regular presenter at user groups and industry conferences throughout the world.
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Denny Cherry specializes as a professional Microsoft SQL Server Database Administrator. He has over 9 years of experience working as a professional database administrator, administrating databases ranging in size from 5 Mega-bytes to 400 Giga-bytes. He recently became a SQL Server MVP and also has received his MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator), MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator), MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist) and MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional) certifications from Microsoft.
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Greg is an internationally recognised consultant, developer and trainer. He has been working in development since 1978, holds a PhD in Computer Science and a host of Microsoft certifications. Greg is the country lead for Solid Quality, a SQL Server MVP and one of only three Microsoft Regional Directors for Australia. Greg also hosts the popular SQL Down Under podcast (www.sqldownunder.com), organises the SQL Down Under Code Camp and co-organises CodeCampOz. He is a board member of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server). He speaks regularly at SQL Server events around the world.
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Jason has 10 years experience as a DBA and has specialized in performance tuning for the last five. He was recognized by Microsoft as a SQL Server MVP. Jason has spoken at the Professional Association of SQL Server Conference, the North Texas SQL Server Users Group, SQL Connections and TechED. He has worked at Terremark (formerly Data Return) for nearly a decade.
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Michael Lato has more than 10 years of experience consulting on various database systems with a special focus in the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) field. Michael's past roles have been as diverse as system designer, project manager and head trainer. He is currently the senior SQL Server database developer and DBA for an international semiconductor company.
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Ron Talmage is a mentor and co-founder of Solid Quality Mentors. He is a SQL Server MVP, PASS Regional Mentor, and current president of the Pacific Northwest SQL Server Users Group. He writes for SQL Server Magazine and CoDe Magazine, and is a member of the Quest SQL Server Advisory Board.
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Timothy Ford is a Senior Database Administrator for Spectrum Health Hospital System. He has been working with Microsoft SQL Server in the capacity of either a Developer/Analyst or Database Administrator since 1999. Tim also has experience as an Oracle DBA, Microsoft Office developer, Systems Engineer, and Web Developer. His is also an author of SQL-centric technical articles for MSSQLTips.com, SQLServerCentral, and Simple-Talk.com. Timothy earned his MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer)certification in 2001. His favorite aspect of SQL is mining information from the system databases for monitoring metrics. He currently administers over 80 SQL Server instances hosting 1000+ databases.
Timothy has been a volunteer leader within the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) since 2002 and presents their annual Quizbowl event in addition to serving on their Programming Committee and Editorial Committee. He is also the leader of the recently-formed West Michigan SQL Server Users Group at http://www.WMSSUG.org which has the distinction of being the 50th local PASS chapter.
Timothy is a strong advocate for telecommuting, having done so in some capacity since 2000. He currently works out of his home office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Thomas LaRock is a seasoned IT professional with over a decade of technical and management experience. Currently serving as a database administration manager with ING Investment Management, Thomas has progressed through several roles at ING, including programmer, analyst, and DBA. Prior to ING, he worked at several software and consulting companies, working at customer sites in the United States and abroad. Thomas holds a MS degree in Mathematics from Washington State University and is a member of the Usability Professional’s Association. Thomas is also a member of Quest’s Association of SQL Server Experts, currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), and is a SQL Server MVP.
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Bloggers
Bloggers write articles about up-to-the-minute SQL Server news, customer support issues, or advice for DBA career paths.
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Ari Weil
Ari Weil is a SQL Server expert and also brings more than 8 years of industry experience working with Oracle, DB2 and related technologies. He is a senior member of the Quest Software Performance Analysis development team and a major contributor to the development of Performance Analysis across database platforms. Ari holds a bachelor of arts degree from the Ohio State University.
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Billy Bosworth
Billy Bosworth is the Vice President and General Manager of SQL Server business unit at Quest Software, overseeing all strategic and tactical aspects of the SQL Server product line. He has been with Quest since 2005.
Prior to Quest, Bosworth was director of product management at Embarcadero Technologies. He has fifteen years of experience in the IT industry, including a variety of roles as developer, DBA, and owner of an independent consulting company.
Bosworth speaks often at industry events and co-authored the book “Powerbuilder 5 Developer’s Resource” (Prentice-Hall, 1997). He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisville.
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Bob Horkay
Bob Horkay is a DBA at H&R Block in Kansas city. Tax season usually means that Bob may not be seen for weeks at a time. He's been working with various .NET and other database technologies before deciding to concentrate on SQL Server 10 years ago. He converted to SQL Server while working for Quilogy, a Microsoft Consulting company. He concentrates on using SQL Server as a tool to solve business problems.
Prior to SQL Server he worked with DB2, Visual Fox Pro and Mainframe Technologies. My web presence is through http://www.LifeAsBob.com, where he maintains his hobbies on the internet: old VW Busses, Family cook book, beer, technology and occasional distractions, and it's all run by .net and SQL Server!
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Chris Webb
Chris Webb is an independent consultant specialising in SQL Server Analysis Services cube design, tuning and troubleshooting and the MDX query language. He’s a co-author of “MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase” and a regular speaker at user groups and conferences in the UK and Europe. He can be contacted via his company website, Crossjoin.co.uk.
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Colin Stasiuk
Colin Stasiuk is known as BenchmarkIT on Twitter. Colin is the SQL PASS Edmonton Chapter President and has over 12 years of SQL Server experience under his belt. He's been a SQL Server Community "voyeur" for many years and recently decided that he should contribute more to the cause of spreading the good (and sometimes bad) word of SQL Server.
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David Gugick
David Gugick is the director of product management for the SQL Server solutions at Quest Software. He has more than 16 years technical and management experience in application development and database design. Before coming to Quest, he had overall responsibility for Coefficient, Imceda’s SQL Server performance profiling solution. David is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a published author. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
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David Swanson
Dave Swanson works as the Product Manager for LiteSpeed for SQL Server and Capacity Manager for SQL Server. After graduating University of Arizona and completing a Computer Science curriculum at Northeastern University, he began his career working as a Delphi developer and DBA.
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Douglas Chrystall
Douglas Chrystall’s extensive database management expertise is the primary driver for the technical direction of Quest Software’s SQL Server business unit. In his current role, Chrystall is responsible for overseeing the SQL Server product strategy as well as new technology development, mergers and acquisitions related to the SQL Server line of business.
Prior to Quest Chrystall was the chief technology officer at Imceda, which was widely known for its award-winning LiteSpeed backup and recovery product, now a part of Quest’s broader SQL Server product offering.
He is a frequent industry speaker on database and security topics, and his innovative thinking is reflected in two patents he holds for database management technology. Chrystall has been a key contributor to private- and public-sector technology advisory boards, including advising on the technology direction of the Australian Trade Commission.
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Gail Shaw
Gail is a database consultant from Johannesburg, South Africa, specialising in performance tuning and database optimisation. Before moving to consulting she worked at a large South African investment bank and was responsible for the performance of the major systems there.
Gail was awarded MVP for SQL Server in July 2008 and spoke at both TechEd South Africa and the PASS Community Summit in Seattle in the same year. She is a frequent poster on the SQLServerCentral forums and has written three articles so far for the same site.
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Grant Fritchey
Grant Fritchey works for FM Global, an industry-leading engineering and insurance company, as a principal DBA. He's done development of large-scale applications in languages such as VB, C#, and Java. He has worked with SQL Server since version 6.0. He has worked in finance and consulting and for three failed dot coms. He is the author of Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple Talk Publishing, 2008) and SQL Server 2008 Performance Tuning Distilled (Apress, 2009).
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James Delve
James Delve is a member of Quest’s Systems Consultant team in Melbourne, Australia. James has over nine years professional experience in technology, including enterprise SQL Server deployment, working to assist customers with monitoring and application management solutions, and SQL Server management.
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Jason Hall
Jason Hall is a solutions architect for Quest Software, specializing in the architecture and implementation of disaster recovery and high availability solutions. Jason has also done extensive work in the field specializing in performance monitoring and tuning. In addition to on-site customer facing work, Jason has presented on Disaster Recovery to SQL Server Users Groups in Houston, Seattle and Chicago, as well as at SQL PASS conferences and SQL Server Summits.
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Jason Strate
Jason Strate, Digineer Inc, has been a Database Architect for over ten years. His experiences include designing and implementing both OLAP and OLTP solutions involving clustering servers, database monitoring and tuning, analysis services, DTS/Integration Services, Reporting Services, and Notification Services.
Jason is a Microsoft MVP, and is actively involved with the local PASS chapter (SQL Server User Group); he is currently serving on the Executive Board and has presented at monthly meetings. Jason contributed to Microsoft’s published white paper "Empowering Enterprise Solutions with SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition" and actively blogs about SQL Server and related technologies. Also this year, Jason participated in the development of Microsoft Certification exams for SQL Server 2008, presented at the SSWUG SQL Server Launch Event and is presenting in upcoming SSWUG SQL Server Conference.
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Jeremiah Peschka
Jeremiah Peschka is a SQL Server developer in the Columbus, OH area with HMB Information System Developers. Jeremiah has broad IT experience in systems administration, web design, application development, and database development spread across diverse platforms. In his current role, Jeremiah specializes in developing solutions based on the SQL Server platform. Jeremiah is currently the Group Leader for CBusPASS, the Columbus chapter of PASS, and the Group Leader for the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter.
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Joe Webb
Joe Webb, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, serves as Chief Operating Manager for WebbTech Solutions, a Nashville-based consulting company. He has over 13 years of industry experience and has earned the Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) accreditations. Joe served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), culminating his tenure as Executive Vice President of Finance.
He has authored two books: “The Rational Guide To: SQL Server Notification Services” and “The Rational Guide To: IT Consulting”. Joe can be reached at: joew@webbtechsolutions.com.
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Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry and is a recognized SQL Server expert. In addition to being a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Kevin is a regular contributor to database technology magazines and discussion forums. Kevin is the author of the O’Reilly titles SQL in a Nutshell and Transact-SQL Programming. He is currently president of PASS - the international SQL Server user group.
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Michelle Ufford is a SQL Developer DBA for GoDaddy.com, where she works with high-volume, mission-critical databases. She has over a decade of experience in a variety of technical roles and has worked with SQL Server for the last 5 years. She enjoys performance tuning and maintains an active SQL Server blog.
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Mike Walsh
Mike is an experienced SQL Server professional who has worked almost exclusively with SQL Server in various capacities for nearly ten years. He has fulfilled the roles of DBA, developer, business analyst and performance team lead but he always works his DBA experience into each role. Most recently he is the Principal Database Administrator and SQL Server subject matter expert for a global insurance company. He also assists organizations with SQL problems through his consulting firm, StraightPath Solutions.
His pet peeves include: apathy towards performance, a lack of (or untested) recovery plan, clothing a business problem in a technology "issue" and people not testing before they implement.
When he isn't learning something new in SQL Server or sharing his knowledge through mentoring others he is busy playing with his growing family, fly-fishing or volunteering on his local fire department.
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Pinal Dave
Pinalkumar Dave is Microsoft SQL Server MVP and author of over 900 SQL Server articles. He has over six years experience as Sr. Project Manager and Principal Database Administrator in MS SQL Server 2008/2005, .NET (C#) and ColdFusion MX. He has a Masters of Science degree in Computer Networks, along with MCDBA, MCAD(.NET) and ColdFusion Advanced MX Certifications.
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Rod Colledge
Rod Colledge is a recognized SQL Server expert in Brisbane, Australia. Having contracted in a wide variety of projects over the last 15 years, he’s developed a specialty in the development and administration of highly available, mission critical SQL Server environments. He’s recently authored a best practices book on SQL Server 2008 Administration, due for release in May 2009 by Manning Publications. Rod is an active participant and presenter at the Queensland SQL Server users group, is the founder and editor of sqlCrunch.com, and blogs at www.rodcolledge.com.
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Scott Herbert
Scott got started in SQL Server 5 years ago, and started blogging as "SQL Ninja" recently, figuring it sounds better than "SQL Pirate". When he's not thinking about SQL, he's thinking about playing guitars and synths, and where to find the perfect laksa. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
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Sean Decker
Sean Decker is a SQL Server DBA for one of the top ten accounting firms in the United States. His career in IS began, ten years ago, as a Systems Administrator, where he was exposed to a wide variety of applications and technologies. Given an opportunity to specialize with SQL Server, five years ago, he transitioned into the DBA role and has been evolving ever since. He recently started blogging to increase his technical depth and get more active in the SQL Server Community.
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Steve Novoselac
Steve is a Microsoft development enthusiast that started as an ASP developer, then .NET, all along the way using SQL 2000/2005 and related technologies. He is currently the Business Intelligence manager at Trek Bicycle Corporation, in Waterloo, WI. Steve love's SQL Server and the BI tools (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS), and learning and sharing things from these areas. His blog postings will cover mostly topics about the Microsoft BI tools from a BI developer perspective, but also delve into topics and discussion around these tools that cover the end-user and SQL Server DBA perspectives.
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Stuart Ainsworth
Stuart R Ainsworth is a database architect and SQL Server developer in the Atlanta area. Stuart has a diverse background in areas of data analysis, database administration, and design; currently working in the field of finance and information security. Stuart has spent some time in manufacturing, public health, and communication environments. He's currently a chapter leader for AtlantaMDF, the Atlanta chapter of PASS, and is a frequent contributor to the local code camps and monthly meetings.
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Umasankar Pandigunta
Sankar is a Database Engineer and an involuntary DBA working for Funmobility, a mobile media and entertainment company where he works with high traffic OLTP systems and over 1 TB data warehouse. Sankar strongly believes in 'Every day is a school day!' and he's thankful for the vibrant SQL Server community.
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Contributors
Contributors help drive the wiki forward by writing new articles, enhancing existing articles with more in-depth information, and adding screen shots and tutorials to articles.
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