* First book to provide comprehensive, deeply practical coverage on all major new SS2005 features.

. Lead author (Tom Rizzo) is a key member of the SQL Server team at Microsoft and a respected author and blogger.

. Gets the DBA and developer up and running with SS2005 in the fastest possible time.

. The facts, not the evangelism.

Thomas Rizzo Tom Rizzo, a director of product management in SQL Server, has been at Microsoft for nine years. Before joining the SQL Server team, Tom worked with e-business servers, including BizTalk Server and Commerce Server, as well as Microsoft Exchange Server. He is also the author of three Microsoft Press books about programming solutions on Microsoft's collaboration platform. Robin Dewson Robin Dewson has been hooked on programming ever since he bought his first computer in 1980. His first main application of his own was a Visual FoxPro application that could be used to run a Fantasy League system. From there, realizing that the market place for Visual FoxPro in the United Kingdom was limited, decided to learn Visual Basic and SQL Server. Starting out with SQL Server 6.5 he soon moved to SQL Server 7 and Visual Basic 5 where he became involved in developing several applications for clients both in the UK and the US. From there he moved to SQL Server 2000 and Visual Basic 6 through to SQL Server Yukon and Visual Basic.Net. Robin is a consultant mainly in the City of London where he has been for nearly 8 years but also has been developing his own rugby related website as well as his own site at www.fat-belly.com Julian Skinner Skinner studied Germanic etymology to PhD level before joining Wrox Press as an indexer in 1998 in order to get a real job. He became a technical editor shortly after that, later working as a technical architect and commissioning editor. Skinner contributed many sections and code samples, and often whole chapters, to the books he worked on at Wrox, mostly hiding behind the relative anonymity of an 'additional material' credit, but he is credited as a co-author of Professional ADO.NET (186100527X), Professional ASP Data Access (1861003927), and Beginning SQL (1861001800). Skinner is also a co-author of A Programmer's Guide to SQL (1590592182) (published by Apress). Louis Davidson Louis Davidson has been in the information technology industry for ten years, as a corporate database developer and architect. Currently, he is serving as a Database Administrator for Compass Technology Management in Nashville Data Center. The majority of his experience, with slight deviations into Visual Basic, has been spent with Microsoft SQL Server from version 1.0 to whatever latest version that is in Beta. Davidson's primary areas of expertise are in database architecture and coding in Transact-SQL, and he has written thousands of numerous stored procedures and triggers throughout the years. Davidson was the sole author on Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design (1861004761) with Wrox Press, and was a contributor to SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure Handbook. (1861008252) Adam Machanic Adam Machanic is a database-focused software engineer with over six years of professional experience implementing SQL Server in both high availability OLTP and large scale data warehouse environments. Adam is currently Senior Database Engineer for GetConnected Inc. in Boston, MA, where he specializes in .NET data access layer performance optimization. He is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server and a Brainbench Certified DBA Joseph Sack Joseph Sack is a database administration and developer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since 1997, he has been developing and supporting SQL Server environments for clients in financial services, IT consulting, manufacturing, and the real estate industry. Joseph received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota. He is the author of SQL Server 2000 Fast Answers for DBAs and Developers (1590591615), the co-author of Beginning SQL Server 2000 DBA: From Novice to Professional (159059293X) and is a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA).

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