About the Author

Rod Colledge was born in Brisbane, Australia, where he currently resides with his wife and two young children. After graduating with a degree in information technology in 1994, Rod worked in a variety of development and support roles before beginning to specialize in SQL Server development and administration in 1996. Since then, Rod has been involved in many large SQL Server development projects in industries including financial services, real estate, law enforcement, and gaming, as well as for state and federal government.

In 1999, Rod was the lead architect of a custom SQL Server replication solution for a Fijian organization, a challenging project involving bidirectional transactional replication of financial transactions over poor-quality communications lines linking Fijian islands.

Rod is currently the technical team leader of the Education Corporate Reporting and Business Intelligence project at the department of Education and Training in Queensland, Australia.

Through his own SQL Server development and consultancy business, Rod’s recently completed projects include a SQL Server 2005 data warehouse and reporting services solution and a web-based license management/asset register system.

Rod has developed a specialty in both the development and administration of very large database systems based on SQL Server. He is an active participant in the Queensland SQL Server Users Group, is the founder and editor of www.sqlCrunch.com, and blogs at www.rodcolledge.com.