David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Business Platform Division (BPD) where he is managing BPD’s Cloud Services: Microsoft SQL Azure and .NET Services. Campbell joined Microsoft in 1994 as a developer and architect on the Microsoft SQL Server Storage Engine team that was principally responsible for rewriting the core engine of SQL Server for SQL Server Version 7.0. He has held a variety of roles within the SQL Server division, including product level architect and general manager of product development. Prior to Microsoft, Campbell worked at Digital Equipment Corporation on the DEC Rdb and DEC DBMS product development teams. Campbell holds several patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a wide variety of data management and software development topics. Campbell lives in Sammamish, Wash., with his wife Marcia and two college-age sons.
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