About The Authors

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Marcilina S. (Frohock) Garcia is a senior consultant at Performance Tuning Corporation, and specializes in database performance benchmarks, SQL Server performance and database design, and system configuration. Mrs. Garcia formerly worked at Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston, Texas, as a database performance engineer. She has published two previous SQL Server books for Microsoft Press: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference.

Jamie Reding is a Performance Engineer with the SQL Server team at Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for developing and maintaining the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) benchmark kits and analyzing SQL Server system performance. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Reding worked at the Compaq Computer Corporation in the capacity of database performance engineer. Mr. Reding has been participating in performance benchmarks and systems analysis since 1984. In addition to his work at Microsoft and Compaq, Mr. Reding spent 11 years with the IBM Corporation. He has previously published a SQL Server book for Microsoft Press entitled Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference.

Edward Whalen is president of Performance Tuning Corporation, a consulting company specializing in database performance, administration, and backup/recovery solutions. Prior to founding Performance Tuning, Mr. Whalen worked at Compaq Computer Corporation as an operating system developer and a database performance engineer. He has extensive experience in database system design and tuning for optimal performance and has worked on numerous benchmarks and performance tuning projects with Oracle and SQL Server. Mr. Whalen has published two previous SQL Server books for Microsoft Press: Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Companion and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Performance Tuning Technical Reference and two books on the Oracle RDBMS: Oracle Performance Tuning and Optimization and Teach Yourself Oracle8 in 21 Days.

Steve Adrien DeLuca is currently Lead Program Manager in the Distributed Management Division at Microsoft Corporation. He is now developing operations management and performance solutions for the enterprise server clients. Prior to working at Microsoft, Mr. DeLuca worked as an architect engineer at Oracle Corporation, where he co-invented, and developed the Oracle System Sizer. In addition to his work at Microsoft and Oracle, Mr. DeLuca has performed the function of performance engineer specializing in sizing and capacity planning for such organizations as DEC, Tandem, Apple, and the U.S. Air Force. Mr. DeLuca has been participating in performance benchmarks, developing performance tools, writing books, and lecturing about them around the world since 1980. Steve currently holds 13 Patents, and Patents that are pending for inventions pertaining to performance and capacity planning.



Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Companion
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrators Companion
ISBN: B001HC0RPI
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 264

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