Joel Murach is the oldest son of publishing pioneer Mike Murach. Joel has been writing and editing books about computer programming for over 20 years now. During that time, he has written extensively on a wide range of Java, .NET, web, and database technologies. He has had best-selling books in all of those categories! In his books, you can see his clear approach to teaching any subject. Besides being a successful author, Joel is also a very talented musician.
Although I have used SQL Server on a daily basis for over 15 years, I was amazed at the number of new things that I learned while reading this book. I used a couple of the ideas to create a noticeable improvement in response time for one of my client/server projects. - Brian Mishler, Orlando .NET User Group