About the Reviewers

Bas avaraj Biradar holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications with gold medals from Gulbarga University, India. Besides these, he has a Microsoft Certified Professional certification in SQL Server 2000. Basavaraj has a rich experience of more than 13 years in designing and developing databases for complex, large, online systems. Currently, Basavaraj is working as Senior Technical Lead in a major IT security company.

Basavaraj writes blogs regularly at http://sqlhints.com on SQL Server technologies and his articles are quite popular in the industry. Basavaraj speaks about SQL Server in Microsoft User Group meetings and in his company as well. You may contact Basavaraj through his e-mail ID, <basav@sqlhints.com>.

Brenner Grudka Lira has been a data analyst and DBA at Neurotech since 2012. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a postgraduate degree in Project Management, both from the Catholic University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil.

He also has experience in building and modeling data warehouses and has knowledge in SQL Server and MySQL database management. Today, he is dedicated to the study of project management and database tuning.

He has reviewed Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services: An Expert Cookbook, Reza Rad and Pedro Perfeito; Oracle BI Publisher 11g: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Reporting, Daniela Bozdoc; and Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration, Gethyn Ellis, all by Packt Publishing.

David Loo is a senior software professional with over 25 years' experience in both software development and people management. He is respected for his ability to focus teams on service excellence and for designing and implementing practical process improvements and solutions. He is always on the lookout for ways to contribute his knowledge and experience of software development, team-building, and development best practices.

He has reviewed Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development, Simon Lidberg and Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration, Gethyn Ellis, both by Packt Publishing.

Richard Louie is a Senior Business Intelligence Developer with over 20 years' experience in software development and project management. He has extensive hands-on experience in Oracle and Microsoft SQL for ETL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and VB.Net. Richard is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine in Information and Computer Science, and is ASQ Green Belt Certified.

He has reviewed Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development, Simon Lidberg and Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration, Gethyn Ellis, both by Packt Publishing.

José (Cheo) Redondo is a consultant, educator, mentor, and evangelist of technology databases and a SQL Server MVP in Latin America, specializing in enterprise databases and business intelligence solutions since 1998. Since that time, he has been providing consulting services and specialized education through academic and business-user groups. He gives conferences to the PASS Community (SQLSaturday events) in Latin America and the US in Spanish, and has been leading SQL PASS Venezuela for several years now. You can follow Cheo on Twitter at @redondoj or contact him through his blog, El Blog de Cheo Redondo in Spanish (http://redondoj.wordpress.com/), or his e-mail, <redondoj@gmail.com>.