Bradley Beard is a professional software developer residing in the lovely city of Palm Bay, Florida. He started off designing websites using PHP and MySQL in the late 90’s, and gradually moved on to ColdFusion and SQL Server. His breadth of SQL Server experience began with SQL Server 7, mainly concentrated on SQL Server 2000, and then picked up again in SQL Server 2008. He earned his MCSA: SQL Server 2012 certification in 2013, his MCSE: Business Intelligence certification in 2016, he was the Technical Reviewer for Mike McQuillan’s Introducing SQL Server, available from Apress, and he is the author of Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server, also available from Apress.