Allan Hirt is a systems engineer for Avanade, specializing in projects on Microsoft enterprise platforms. Prior to that he worked for Microsoft. He was the primary author of SQL Server 2000 High Availability (Microsoft Press, 2003) as well as a writer and contributor to various whitepapers and training materials about SQL Server for Microsoft. He is a frequent instructor on various DBA topics and presents regularly at Tech Ed, SQL PASS, and other conferences.
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