Jasmin Azemović is a university professor active in the database systems, information security, data privacy, forensic analysis, and fraud detection fields. His PhD degree was in modeling design and developing an environment for the preservation of privacy inside database systems. He is the author of many scientific research papers and two books: Writing T-SQL Queries for Beginners Using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Securing SQL Server 2012. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Data Platform) for the last 10 years and an information security consultant. He is an active speaker at many IT professional and community conferences.
I thank God for giving me the strength to write this book and not give up in hard moments. Special gratitude goes to my wife Nermana and children Selver, Imran, and Sara. They supported me even when I was spending family time working on this project. Finally, thanks go to my parents father Atif and mother Adila for encouraging me to choose an as my profession many years ago and selflessly supporting me on that path. Finally, I'm grateful to all the people who helped me on the way and made this book possible: Travis Wright from Microsoft for pointing me in the right direction and the Packt team for recognizing the potential of this book and working with me on it: Tushar Gupta, Amey Varangaonkar, Cheryl D'sa, and Prasad Ramesh.