Blog / LinkedIn

Kevin Kline is the Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software, a leading provider of award winning tools for database management and application monitoring on the SQL Server platform. A Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2004, Kevin is a founding board member of the international Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) and served as president from 2002-2006. He is the lead author of SQL in a Nutshell and a co-author of Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization and Database Benchmarking: Practical Methods for Oracle & SQL Server. Kevin writes monthly columns for SQL Server Magazine and Database Trends & Applications and blogs at SQLBlog.com and SQLMag.com. Kevin is a top rated speaker, appearing at international conferences like Microsoft TechEd, the PASS Community Summit, Microsoft IT Forum, DevTeach,and SQL Connections. When he’s not pulling his hair out over work, he loves spending time with his four kids and in his garden.

Blog / LinkedIn

Andy Leonard is a SQL Server database developer, MCSD, and engineer who resides in central Virginia. He is co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Wrox, 2006), Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Tools for Software Developers and Test Engineers (Wrox, 2007), and founded VSTeamSystemCentral.com. An engineer - by training and at heart - Andy began working with Business Intelligence in the mid-1990's when he developed one of the first web-based Manufacturing Execution Systems: Plant-Wide Webs.  Andy's experience includes SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) development and architecture, data warehouse architecture and development, and web and mobile application architecture and development. An experienced project manager, he enjoys translating between business and developer groups – applying Visual Studio Team System's capabilities in the business ecosystem.

Blog / LinkedIn

Buck Woody has been working with Information Technology since 1981. He has worked for the U.S. Air Force, at an IBM reseller as technical support, and for NASA as well as U.S. Space Command as an IT contractor. He has worked in most all IT positions from computer repair technician to system and database administrator, and from network technician to IT Manager. But it is the database field he always returns to. He has been a DBA and Database Developer on everything from an Oracle system running on a VAX to SQL Server and DB2 installations. Buck has a business degree and several industry certifications, including MCSE, MCDBA and Brainbench DBA. He is the author of over 300 SQL Server articles and four published SQL Server books; he is the site personality on InformIT.com's SQL web, and was the President of the Tampa SQL User's Group for 5 years. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in 2006 for SQL Server, and started work in the SQL Server Team at Microsoft a year later. He has over twenty years extensive professional and practical experience in computer networks and network design. Experienced in design and management of business and technical systems, as well as marketing and training those systems to the user community and corporate officers.

Blog / LinkedIn

Kalen has been writing about SQL Server for almost 22 years, in addition to developing courseware. She wrote a regular monthly column on SQL Server Internals for Pinnacle Publishing's SQL Server Professional Journal from October 95 to September 98. She was a co-author of SAMS' SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed (Oct 96) and SQL Server in 21 Days (Feb 98), also from SAMS.

In mid-1998, Kalen joined the editorial staff of Penton's newest publication, SQL Server Magazine, which made its debut in February 1999. She wrote a regular monthly column for almost 10 years, as well as frequent articles for this publication, and is still a regular contributor.  She has also written articles for WindowsITPro Magazine (formerly Windows Magazine) from Penton Media (windowsITPro.com).

Kalen has been invited by Microsoft to present special internal training over the years. She has spoken at Microsoft Technical Education Conference (TechEd) on many occasions and presented at every PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit since organization’s inception.