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About the Author

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Michael J. Hernandez currently works at Microsoft as a program manager for the Developer Tools team of the Visual Studio .NET group . Previously, he was an independent relational database consultant specializing in relational database design. Mike is a veteran database developer with more than 14 years of experience developing applications for a wide variety of clients in diverse industries. He has worked with several relational database management systems throughout his career and has been working exclusively with Access since Version 1.0 and with SQL Server since version 7.0. Mike is coauthor of the best-selling SQL Queries for Mere Mortals and has been a contributing author to, columnist for, and technical editor of various database books and periodicals.

Aside from his work on various database development projects and writing projects, Mike has also been a veteran instructor for nationally recognized training organizations such as AppDev, Deep Training, and Focal Point, Inc., and traveled across the nation teaching Microsoft Access, SQL Server, SQL/92 query construction, and relational database design. For more than 13 years, Mike trained thousands of students from Fortune 500 companies, the military, the government, and the private sector. He consistently received top ratings from his students and became one of the premiere instructors in the country. He's spoken at various national and international conferences, such as the 2001 Microsoft Office Deployment and Development Conference in Orlando, Florida, and the 2002 Microsoft Office Solutions Conference in Palm Springs, California. Mike became deeply involved in Microsoft's .NET initiative and was one of the first 200 Microsoft-authorized .NET instructors. He participated in Microsoft's nationwide .NET Developers Training Tour and in Deep Training's .NET Training Tour in San Jose, Costa Rica. Now he travels across the country on behalf of Microsoft.

Mike has been studying the guitar since 1967 and was actually a professional guitarist for 15 years, playing a wide variety of styles. His ability to enthuse his audiences comes from years of entertaining, and Mike has a reputation among his colleagues for being quite uninhibited. He's played the guitar for his students, subjected anyone within earshot to a collection of the world's worst puns, played the game Charades to illustrate a point, and caused minor uproars with his imitations of George Bush, Sr., and Ross Perot.

Some of Mike's musician friends have talked him into coming out of retirement, and he is playing once again in front of gracious and appreciative audiences. He's taken to playing a lot of Bossa Nova and finger-style jazz and is even composing his own music. With any kind of luck, he'll eventually have enough material to produce his own music CD.

On those rare occasions when he has free time, Mike usually spends it at one of three places: drinking a "Tall Americano with room" at any immediately available Starbucks, hanging out in the database section at any Barnes & Noble bookstore, or hitting golf balls at the local driving range and pretending he is Lee Trevino.

If you'd like to contact Mike, you can e-mail him at mjhernandez@msn.com.


   
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Database Design for Mere Mortals[c] A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design
ISBN: 0201694719
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 203

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