Brad M. McGehee is a MCTS, MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT (former) with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration. Brad was a Microsoft SQL Server MVP for 10 years, and has over 18 years SQL Server experience, over 9 years training experience, and has been involved in the IT since 1982.Brad has been a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, European PASS, SQL Server Connections, SQLTeach, devLINK, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, TechFests, Code Camps, SQL in the City, SQL Server user groups, webinars, and other industry seminars, where he shares his 18 years of cumulative knowledge and experience.Since 2007, Brad has presented over 154 presentations to over 10,300 attendees in six different countries.Brad was the founder of the popular community site SQL-Server-Performance.Com, and operated it from 2000 through 2006, where he wrote over one million words on SQL Server topics.