About the Reviewers

Vinod Kumar M has worked with SQL Server extensively since joining the industry over a decade ago. Working on various versions from SQL Server 7.0, Oracle, and other database technologies, he now works with Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) as a Technical Architect. With extensive database, BI, and application background, he currently helps customers maximize on their investments on technologies to solve real business and technology problems. He has worked in various roles and projects involving development, migration, deployment, networking, architecture, testing, packaging, R&D, and much more. He holds close to 26+ Microsoft Certification on various technologies. He is also a known speaker at Technical conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, MSDN, TechNet, and so on. Before working with Microsoft, he was a Microsoft MVP—Server for 3+ years.

Vinod has worked for more than 11 years in computers and database systems since earning his Engineering degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai. He has published numerous articles in SQL Server on multiple sites and currently writes most of his learning onto his site and blog at Blogs.ExtremeExperts.com.

Ravikanth C has more than ten years of experience in the IT industry. At the beginning of his career, he worked at Wipro InfoTech managing Windows, Solaris servers, and Cisco network equipment. He currently works at Dell Inc. as a lead engineer in the SharePoint solutions group. As a part of his work, he authored several whitepapers on MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 that provide guidance around infrastructure elements of a SharePoint deployment. His work also involves performance testing and sizing of SharePoint workloads on Dell servers and storage.

He is passionate about automation, and apart from his work he writes regularly on his blog at http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog about topics related to Windows PowerShell, Microsoft SharePoint, and Windows Server virtualization. In 2010, he received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in Windows PowerShell. You can also hear him speak regularly at BITPro (http://bitpro.in) user group meetings and other in-person events in Bangalore, India.

Venkatesan Prabu Jayakantham is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP for the year 2008, 2009, and 2010 and the founder of KaaShiv Info Tech (www.Kaashivinfotech.com), a company that is dedicated to delivering software and training solutions in Chennai, India. He has authored more than 500 articles guiding at least 400 developers per day from 250 countries all over the world. He is also passionate towards corporate training and has trained more than 400+ IT professionals and guided 3000+ IT students in India towards job opportunities. Venkat lives in Chennai with his wife Subashini S and his son Krishiv. You can check his technical blog http://venkattechnicalblog.blogspot.com/.