Paul S. Randal

Paul S. Randal

Paul is the managing director of SQLskills.com, which he runs with his wife, Kimberly L. Tripp. He is also a SQL Server MVP and one of the contributing editors of TechNet Magazine. Paul joined Microsoft in 1999 after spending five years at DEC working on the OpenVMS file system. He wrote various DBCC commands for SQL Server 2000 and then rewrote all of DBCC CHECKDB for SQL Server 2005 before moving into management on the SQL Server team. During SQL Server 2008 development, he was responsible for the entire Storage Engine.

Paul regularly teaches classes on topics such as database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, and ...

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