About Blog Author
Patrick Purviance — Microsoft SQL Server Expert with a decade of broad IT experience in SQL Server Database Administration; Application Development, Systems and Network administration, and DBA team and project management.
In his current role, Patrick is a Senior Consultant with Sogeti USA, one of the world’s leading providers of IT consulting services. He serves as an Enterprise Database Administration consultant.
In previous roles, Patrick was a Senior Database Administrator for a medium-large scale electronic security service provider and specializes in DBA team management/mentoring, performance tuning, relational database design, and oversight of approximately 180 database servers (Prod/Dev/Test), hosting approximately 1800 individual MSSQL and Oracle databases. Before that, he spent over 5 years with a Wichita based software development house, where he specialized in application development, systems and network administration and MSSQL Server development and administration.
Patrick enjoys sharing his technology experience with others and has purposed this blog to facilitate sharing that knowledge with anyone who can benefit from it. Recently, Patrick is working on the formation and management of the Wichita SQL Server Users Group to be serving the Wichita, KS Metro Area.
-Last Updated November 12, 2010