Professional SQL Server™ 2005 Administration

Acknowledgments

Once again, I must give my eternal gratitude to my wife, Jennifer. Without her, my career of late nights and early mornings would never have been possible. I owe so much to her, I could never possibly start to repay it all. Likewise, my children have had many nights without a "daddy jungle gym" for a few hours while I had to write. —Brian Knight

I would like to thank my parents, Thakorbhai and Induben, for their unwavering and selfless support and inspiration in my life. Whatever I am today is because of them. The word "thanks" cannot express the feeling I have for them. I also would like to thank my sister-in-law and my best friend, Pramakshi, for her altruistic support, encouragement, and belief in me and in everything I do. I would like to thank my wife, Sweety, for her invaluable support when I go into writing mode all those weekends. I would like to acknowledge Brian Knight and JC, coauthors of this book, for providing me with a great opportunity to coauthor this book. Last but not the least, I would like to acknowledge my reviewers, Stefano Stefani, Roger Wolter, Remus Rusanu, Mark Wistrom, and Jakub Kulesza, all from SQL Server team, Brian MacDonald, the editor for this book, and Jennifer Coughlan, my colleague, because without them this book would not exist or contain the level of depth that it has. Finally, I want to say thank you to B.J. Moore and Mark Mincin, both General Managers at Microsoft, for their support. —Ketan Patel

Thank you to my loving wife, ...