Erland Sommarskog is an independent consultant in Stockholm. He has been working with SQL Server since 1991, and has been an MVP since 2001.

Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of Solid Quality Mentors, a SQL Server Microsoft MVP since 1999, and an author, trainer and speaker. He authored several SQL Server Books including "Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Fundamentals", "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying" and "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming". For more, see: solidq, insidetsql.

Andy Leonard is an Architect with Molina Medicaid Solutions, SQL Server database and Integration Services developer, SQL Server MVP, PASS Regional Mentor, and engineer. He is a co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services and SQL Server MVP Deep Dives. Andy blogs for SQLBlog.com. His background includes web application architecture and development, VB, and ASP; SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS); data warehouse development using SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.

Louis has over 15 years experience as a corporate database developer and architect. Currently he is the Data Architect for the Christian Broadcasting Network and NorthStar Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Nearly all of Louis' professional experience has been with Microsoft SQL Server from the early days to whatever is the latest version currently in beta. Louis has been the principal author on four editions of a book on database design, including one for SQL Server 2008. Louis's primary areas of interest are database architecture and coding in T-SQL, with experience designing many databases and writing thousands of stored procedures and triggers through the years.

Arnie is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been recognized by Microsoft as a SQL Server MVP. He has been a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with on SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 training courses and has recently been involved as a SME with the development of the Microsoft SQL 2008 Administrator and Developer Certification Exams. Arnie has served as a technical editor for several publishers, including multiple SQL Sever 2005 titles in the Microsoft Official Curriculum.Read More

Pinal Dave is a Microsoft Technology Evangelist (Database and BI). He has written over 1800 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. He has 7+ years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of certifications, including MCTS, MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He is also Regional Mentor for PASS Asia. Prior to joining Microsoft he was awarded Microsoft MVP award for three continuous years for his contribution in community.

Madhu K Nair is a MVP in SQL Server and is currently associated with Data Architecture CoE, Cognizant as an Database Architect. He has 12 years of experience in IT field.

Peter is a SQL Server MVP, currently working as a data warehouse architect and developer. His key skill is performance tuning and thinking outside the box. See his blog.

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.

Deepak is a SQL Server MVP since 2008. He has 4 years of experience in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 Administration, Designing and Development. He is currently working as a Senior DBA at an emerging enterprise, GlobalScholar. He is also the Chapter Leader and President of Chennai SQL Server User Group.He blogs at Deepak Rangarajan and he is a regular columnist at sql-articles. You can reach him at deepak.rangarajan@gmail.com.