About the Author

Satya Shyam K Jayanty is an Independent Consultant working as Principal Architect & Director for D Bi A Solutions Limited based in Europe. He has consulted in a wide range of industries, including the stock exchange, insurance, tele-communications, financial, retail, and manufacturing sectors, among others. Satya's SQL specialty is performance tuning, data platform review, and designing high availability database solutions.

He graduated with a Master's degree in Economics and Commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad (India) and earned an MBA—Systems from the University of West England.

In 1992, Satya started his career in the IT industry as a computer operator and assistant programmer, and then in 1996 transformed his career as a SYBASE DBA. He has been working with SQL Server (beginning from version 4.2) for more than 15 years and is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2006. He is a regular speaker and SME volunteer at major technology conferences such as Microsoft Tech-Ed (Europe, India, and North America), SQL PASS (Europe and North America), SQL Bits—UK, and manages the Scottish Area SQL Server user group based in Scotland. He is also a moderator in most web-based SQL Server forums (Microsoft Technet and www.sql-server-performance.com), a writer, a contributing editor, and blogs at www.sqlserver-qa.net, www.sql-server-performance.com, and www.beyondrelational.com.