Paul and Kimberly are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They’re both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with more than 30 years of combined SQL Server experience.

Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and he was ultimately responsible for SQL Server 2008’s core storage engine. Paul blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul.

Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.

They've written Microsoft white papers and books for SQL Server 2008, 2005 and 2000, and they're regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, design, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach SQLskills Immersion Events, which are wildly popular classes that teach the essential skills required to be an effective DBA; these classes also cover the required topics of the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification.