Jacob Sebastian is a SQL Server MVP, Author, Speaker and Trainer. Jacob wrote the book The Art of XSD - SQL Server XML Schema Collections and wrote the XML Chapter in SQL Server 2008 Bible.

Rui is a consultant, trainer, speaker on Sql Server and .Net. He is mainly focused today on web applications, agility, practices and open source around Microsoft technologies. He runs it's own consulting and software company ArtOfNet.

Dishdy did his BS in Computer Science at New York University in 1976. He currently lives in Italy and has mostly been working with companies dealing with software of one kind or another. He runs a small team of developers specialized in Java, Visual Studio and Oracle/SQL Server.

Brad has been working with databases for 30 years. He was a Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP) MVP from 1994-2000, and has written articles for various VFP publications. He now devotes most of his time to SQL Server and is a moderator at the MSDN T-SQL Forums. See Brad's Profile|Blog.

Vijaya started his carrer with VB,ASP & SQL Server then he moved to .Net and then extensively worked on VB.NET, ASP.NET with SQL Server 2000. In addition to.Net, he also architected and designed few J2EE applications and database centric applications. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP/ASP.NET Architecture.

Engineer on a Active Directory team for a large (50,000+ users) corporation. 13+ years of IT experience.

From Portugal. 26 years old. Experience in a wide variety of business intelligence projects and industries (in particular communications, automotive, billing & payments, CRM). Currently working at the biggest Portuguese communications company as BI Architect, Performance/Tuning and Project Management. See Marco's Blog | Profile.

Niladri Biswas is a Lead Engineer at HCL technologies Ltd., having 4+ years of experience in IT field. He loves to explore new technologies and love challenges and try to help others as much as possible not only by coding but also by all possible means. See Niladri's Profile|Blog.

Stefan works for Acando in Sweden as a BI solution architect. Stefan has worked extensively with all SQL server versions since 7.0. Stefan is an expert at solving performance related problems with SQL server.