Paul White is an independent SQL Server technical consultant, specializing in performance tuning. Paul lives in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, and has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. Paul writes a highly-regarded SQL Server technical blog at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_white/ and is a regular contributor to http://www.sqlservercentral.com/. You can also follow him on Twitter at @SQL_Kiwi.