Christian Bolton is the Techical Director for Coeo Ltd, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on large scale and complex SQL Server projects in EMEA. Prior to this, Christian worked for 5 years as a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft UK working with some of Microsoft’s biggest customers. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect and Master for SQL Server specialising in High Availability, Scalabilility, and Performance Tuning and is co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning published by Wrox. He works out of London and lives in the south of England with his wife and children and can be contacted at http://coeo.com or through his blog at http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/christian.