Brent Ozar is a Microsoft Certified Master and a SQL Server MVP. He works with Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp as a consultant and trainer at SQLskills. Brent has a decade of broad IT experience, including management of multi-terabyte data warehouses, storage area networks and virtualization. In his current role, Brent specializes in performance tuning, disaster recovery and automating SQL Server management. Previously, Brent spent two years at Southern Wine & Spirits, a Miami-based wine and spirits distributor. He has experience conducting training sessions, has written several technical articles, and blogs prolifically at http://www.BrentOzar.com. He is a regular speaker at PASS events and co-author of the book, "Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting" at http://sqlservertroubleshooting.com.