About the reviewers

Joel Redman is a Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience in embedded, scientific, and database software programming. He is currently employed at Microsoft for the last 7 years, working on SQL Server, primarily in support of the Query Optimizer and other query processing engine features.

Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data SQL Server team, which owns the development for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 25+ years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2019 including Azure. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server, often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and performance at events such as SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQLIntersection, and Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ignite. Bob is the author of the new book Pro SQL Server on Linux available from Apress Media.

Tim Chapman is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and Principal Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, where he has worked for over 8 years. Tim's area of technical expertise focuses on performance tuning, high availability, T-SQL and PowerShell development, and customer training. Before coming to Microsoft, Tim was a contributor to the SQL MVP community for three years and has had the privilege of speaking at many SQL Server events such as SQLIntersection, the PASS Summit, SQL Connections, SQL Saturdays, SQL Rally, SQL Nexus, and SQL Server Days Belgium. Tim has over 17 years of database architecture, programming, and administration experience. Tim has contributed to the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2 book as well as the SQL Server 2012 Bible.

Argenis Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager with the Microsoft SQL Server team based in Redmond, WA. Previously, Argenis worked as a Principal Architect for Pure Storage, and as a Lead Database Operations Engineer at SurveyMonkey. He is a founding member of the Security Virtual Chapter for PASS. Argenis is a SQL community enthusiast and speaks frequently at major SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform conferences, including the PASS Summit, SQLBits, and Microsoft Ignite. He is also a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) on SQL Server, former VMware vExpert, and former Microsoft Data Platform MVP.