About the Technical Reviewers

Rodney Landrum  went to school to be a poet and a writer. And then he graduated, so that dream was crushed. He followed another path, which was to become a professional in the fun-filled world of information technology. He has worked as a systems engineer, UNIX and network admin, data analyst, client services director, and finally as a database administrator. The old hankering to put words on paper, while paper still existed, got the best of him, and in 2000, he began writing technical articles, some creative and humorous, some quite the opposite. In 2010 he wrote The SQL Server Tacklebox, a title his editor disdained, but a book closest to the true creative potential he sought; he wanted to do a full book without a single screen shot. He promises his next book will be fiction or a collection of poetry, but that has yet to transpire.

Ian Rice is a business intelligence and data warehouse consultant, specializing in the Microsoft suite of technologies. In his 12 years of consultancy, he has designed and delivered multiple data warehouses, including supporting report environments across finance, insurance, retail, and service sectors. He has also used his experience to assist organizations in recovering failed, previous data warehouse implementations. Ian is currently based in the UK, and accepts clients both nationally and internationally.