About the Contributing Authors

Bennett McEwan is president of Parry Five Consulting, LLC, in northern Virginia. Ben consults on SQL Server projects in the Washington, DC area. His top skills are in SQL Server replication, performance tuning, high availability database design, and data warehouse architecture. He is always on the lookout for challenging projects. Contact him at [e-mail].

Chris Gallelli is a database administrator working for Alltel Corporation in Latham, New York. Chris has more than seven years of experience with SQL Server and more than 15 years of computing experience. His experience is varied and includes work as both a Visual Basic developer and a DBA. He has a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering and a Masters degree in business administration from Union College. Chris currently lives near Albany, New York with his lovely wife Laura and two daughters Rachael and Kayla.

Alex T. Silverstein is a client/server developer for Alltel Information Services in New York's capital region. He specializes in thin-client enterprise software design and programming. His expertise is in Microsoft- powered Internet solutions based on SQL Server 2000 and Internet Information Server (IIS), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT), Active Server Pages (ASP), Dynamic HTML (DHTML), and scripting languages. He is a graduate of Rutgers University. Alex can be contacted at [e-mail].