Satya SK Jayanty is a SQL Server MVP and Subject Matter Expert with consulting and technical expertise for D Bi A Solutions INc. Limited, with over 20 years of experience. His work experience includes a wide range of industries, including the stock exchange, insurance, tele-communications, financial, retail, and manufacturing sectors, among others.
He is a regular speaker and SME volunteer at major technology conferences such as Microsoft Tech-Ed (Europe, India, and North America), and 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 a majority of web-based SQL Server forums (Microsoft Technet and www.sql-server-performance.com), writer, and contributing editor, and blogs at www.sqlserver-qa.net, www.sql-server-performance.comand, www.beyondrelational.com websites.
He is the author of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and co-author of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2, Manning Publications.
Maria Zakourdaev has more than 10 years of experience with SQL Server. She is currently working with one of the most successful Israeli startup companies, called Conduit. She has extensive knowledge of Microsoft replication solutions, table partitioning, and advanced, query tuning techniques. Prior to Conduit she had worked with different companies, benchmarking different SQL Server features and flows, such as partitioning, data import, index impact on DML flows, star transformations in RDBMS, hierarchic queries, and custom OLAP-like aggregations. She was a speaker in Microsoft Teched (Israel) on the SQL Server track and is an active member of the Israel SQL Server Group.
Michael Zilberstein has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry and database world, working with all the SQL Server versions from 6.5 to 2012 and with different Oracle versions as well. After working with several start-up companies during the first few years of his career, in 2007 Michael founded DBArt Ltd SQL Server, a consulting services company.
Two of Michael's most distinctive interests (besides rappelling, homebrewing, playing chess, and reading history books) are performance tuning and architecture of large-scale systems. The biggest professional satisfaction for him is to take a young start-up company and build its product from schemas in scrapbook and Visio to a working and scalable terabyte-size system.
Michael is a frequent speaker at Israeli SQL Server Usergroup (ISUG) and other SQL Server events in Israel. He also writes a blog—http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_zilberstein/default.aspx.