About the Authors
Chris Leiter (Auburn, WA) is a Senior Consultant for Hitachi Consulting. His primary focus is Microsoft's Business Intelligence and Performance Management products. Chris has been a Microsoft Certified Professional since 1997 and a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2001. He currently holds the MCSE: Security, MCITP: Database Administrator, and ITIL: Foundation certifications. Chris is also co-author of Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration by Dan Wood, Chris Leiter, and Paul Turley from Wrox Press 2006. When not writing about or working with Microsoft SQL Server, he enjoys watching movies from his extensive DVD collection with his wife, Bridget, and their cat, Cosmo. Chris contributed Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 18.
Dan Wood (Silverdale, WA) is the senior database administrator for Avalara, a sales tax compliance company where he both administers and develops database solutions for several enterprise applications that handle global address validation, tax rate calculation, and sales tax remittance for e-commerce and ERP clients. He has been working with SQL Server as a DBA, consultant, and trainer since 1999. Dan was a co-author on Beginning Transact-SQL with SQL Server 2000 and 2005 by Paul Turley and Dan Wood (2005) and Beginning T-SQL with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 by Paul Turley and Dan Wood (2008) and the lead author of Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration, all from WROX press. Dan contributed Chapters 4. and 9.
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