Thomas Grohser is an IT professional with over 35 years of experience. The majority of this time he spent programming, managing, designing, panning, building, documenting, automating and securing SQL Server infrastructure and databases. He wrote and contributed to several books and spoke at hundreds of events all over the world about SQL Server and managing data. Over the years he has managed thousands of SQL Server instances processing trillions of rows and taking up petabytes of storage.