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Lubor is part of the SQL Server development organization since the 6.5 release in 1996. He is Group Program Manager and his group is responsible for the “bottom” part of the Engine – from query compilation and optimization to query execution, transactional consistency, backup/restore and high availability. Following are the major SQL Server 2005 features his team worked on: Table and Index Partitioning, Database Mirroring, Database Snapshot, Snapshot Isolation, Recursive Query and other T-SQL query improvements, Online Index creation and maintenance. Lubor is working with Microsoft Research applying newest research results in product development. He represented Microsoft in TPC benchmarking organization several years. Before joining Microsoft Lubor was developing DB2 engines for various OS platforms in IBM laboratories.
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Itzik Ben-Gan is one of the founders and Principal Mentor with Solid Quality Learning. He teaches, lectures, writes and consults about SQL Server internationally for Solid Quality Learning. He has been working with databases since 1992, and has been focusing on SQL Server since 1998. He writes monthly columns in SQL Server Magazine and he co-authored the book Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (Apress). In 1999 he founded the Israeli SQL Server and OLAP Users Group and has been managing it since. Itzik is an MCT and a SQL Server MVP.
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Michael Hotek is one of the founders and Principal Mentor of Solid Quality Learning. Michael specializes in replication, disaster recovery, high availability, performance tuning, and architecture. Michael's experience with SQL Server goes back over a decade and he has been working in this industry (he calls it a hobby) since he was 8 years old. Michael became a SQL Server MVP in 2000 and has co-authored 2 books on SQL Server. He has also been published many times across diverse disciplines ranging from application development to SQL Server.
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Douglas McDowell is the Director of Operations for the Solid Quality Learning Business Intelligence Division and is an author and contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine. He spent 5 years with Intellinet in their Microsoft Gold-Certified Business Intelligence practice and currently organizes Atlanta.mdf, a thriving, Atlanta-based PASS chapter with a membership of almost 500 professionals. Douglas enjoys delivering client value using the SQL Server business intelligence and data warehousing platform as a mentor, solution architect and project manager. He is a MCSE, MCDBA and MCT and was the enterprise architect and project manager of the Cox Communications Microsoft Worldwide Business Intelligence Solution of the Year, and has been recognized twice by SQL Server Magazine for SQL Innovators Cup Awards for his BI solutions. Douglas also provides Program Management to clients for Early Adopter Programs (EAP) and has led successful client projects for early adopters of SQL Server Reporting Services, the Intel Itanium2 64-bit Madison processor and SQL Server 2005.
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Dejan Sarka is an MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and SQL Server MVP. He is a trainer and consultant working for many CTECs and development companies in Slovenia and some other nearby countries. He is a frequent contributor to the PASS news and many local technical magazines. He is a member of the PASS Technical Advisory Council and Microsoft SQL Server beta testing program. Besides training he regularly works on OLTP, OLAP and Data Mining projects, especially at the database design stage (Dejan worked with Data Mining technologies long before Microsoft built the first version of SQL Server). He is a regular speaker on regional Microsoft TechNet meetings, on the NT Conference, the largest Microsoft conference in Central and Eastern Europe, and some other events, like MCT and PASS conferences. He is the founder and the manager of the Slovenian SQL Server Users Group.
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Erik Veerman is an Associate Mentor for Solid Quality Learning focusing on mentoring and architecting solutions on the SQL Server BI platform. His industry recognition includes Microsoft’s Worldwide BI Solution of the Year and SQL Server Magazine’s Innovator Cup winner. Erik has designed dozens of BI solutions across a broad business spectrum—telecommunications, marketing, retail, commercial real estate, finance, supply chain, and information technology. These efforts have included the development of OEM products, broad warehousing initiatives, BI methodology standardization, best practices on Microsoft SQL Server, and lab benchmarking. His experience with high volume multi-terabyte environments and SQL Server 64-bit has enabled clients to scale their Microsoft-based solutions for optimal potential. As an expert in OLAP design, ETL processing, and dimensional modeling in general, Erik is a frequent presenter for his local PASS chapter and speaks at the national PASS and SQL Server Magazine Connections conferences. He led the ETL architecture and design for the first production implementation of Integration Services (SSIS) and is currently driving the ETL standards and best practices for SSIS on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 product launch reference initiative, Project REAL.
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Richard Hundhausen, a Solid Quality Learning mentor, travels and mentors developers worldwide. He has over 20 years of software and database development experience and over 14 years of training experience. His main area of interest is the ever-expanding intersection between .NET and SQL Server. As a result of this constant evangelism, he became a Microsoft Regional Director in 2004. Richard recently finished his latest book, Introducing Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Beta) for Microsoft Press.
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Adolfo Wiernik is an associated mentor for Solid Quality Learning. He has worked as lead architect at the Microsoft .NET Center Central America. Before that, he worked at the Microsoft Technology Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founder and organizer of the Costa Rica .NET User Group. Adolfo Wiernik is a Microsoft Regional Director, recognized by Microsoft as an influencer in the Central American industry and received the Best Regional Director Latin America 2004 award. Regular speaker in local and international industry events. He is passionate about Service Orientation, Design Patterns and using the .NET Platform to generate new services and businesses.
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