About Operation Smile

Operation Smile, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, is an international children’s medical charity with programs and foundations in more than 60 countries, whose network of more than 5,000 medical volunteers from 76 countries is dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults. Since its founding in 1982, Operation Smile has provided more than 2 million patient evaluations and has conducted over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates, and other facial deformities. To lay the groundwork for long-term self-sufficiency in developing countries, Operation Smile donates medical equipment and trains local medical professionals in its partner countries so they are empowered to treat their own local communities. Visit www.operationsmile.org for more information.

A letter from Operation Smile follows on the next page.

August 15, 2011

To Kalen, Kimberly, Paul, Paul, Greg, Louis, Brad, and all the other SQL Server MVPs who participated in producing this book:

On behalf of Operation Smile, we want to thank all of you for selecting Operation Smile as the beneficiary for Volume 2 in the SQL Server Deep Dives series. We are indeed privileged and humbled knowing you have joined us in helping children around the world who just want a chance to smile and play like every other child.