Kimberly L. Tripp
Managing Director - SQLskills
Kimberly L. Tripp is a SQL Server MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director and has worked with computers since 1985. Her career with database technologies began with IBM in 1988 and with Microsoft SQL Server in 1990. Kimberly has presented lectures and seminars at Microsoft Tech*Ed and other top-flight SQL Server-related events since 1996 and is consistently top-rated both on quality of technical content and presentation style. Kimberly regularly consults with customers to help them tackle their availability and performance issues as well as works with Microsoft to provide new and interesting technical resources. Kimberly blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/kimberly
Paul S. Randal
Managing Director - SQLskills
Paul S. Randal is the Managing Director of SQLskills.com which he runs with his wife Kimberly L. Tripp. He is a SQL Server MVP and writer for TechNet Magazine. He worked on the SQL Server Storage Engine team at Microsoft from 1999 to 2007. Paul wrote DBCC CHECKDB/repair for SQL Server 2005 and was responsible for the Core Storage Engine during SQL Server 2008 development. Paul is an expert on disaster recovery, high-availability, and database maintenance and is a regular, top-rated presenter at conferences around the world. Paul blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/paul.
Greg Linwood
Australian Director & Mentor - SQLSkills
Greg Linwood is the director of SQLskills in Australia. Greg was the first Australian awarded with Microsoft’s SQL Server MVP award in 2003 and is one of the founders of the Australian SQL Server User Group. He is a regular speaker at User Group meetings around Australia and has been working professionally with SQL Server since 1993 in a variety of development and administrative capacities. Greg blogs at http://blogs.sqlserver.org.au/blogs/Greg_Linwood/
Allan Mitchell
Mentor - SQLSkills
Allan Mitchell is a consultant in the UK focusing on BI solutions with his company Konesans which he founded with Darren Green. He has helped to deliver a large number of projects to a broad group of industries with a primary area of focus being Microsoft's ETL products DTS and SSIS. He is a SQL Server MVP, an MCDBA and an MCSE. He speaks at industry conferences and has been published numerous times in SQL Server Professional Magazine. Allan is a co-author of the book SSIS Professional (Wiley Publishers, 2005, a Wrox title). Allan is also the co-author of the www.SQLDTS.com and www.SQLIS.com websites providing useful information for users.
Paul S.Randal & Kimberly L. Tripp
Get 2 mentors teaching the one course
Paul and Kimberly are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
They have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.