This website is run by 4 DBAs who are originally from Chennai, INDIA and now are settled in different parts of the world. The one thing that united all 4 of us is SQL server.

Deepak Rangarajan

Deepak Rangarajan graduated with a Bachelors degree in Electronics in June 2006 and worked for a Seattle based startup as a Senior Database Administrator. He has 5 years of work experience in database administration, development and performance tuning. Currently he is pursuing his Masters in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Deepak is awarded as MVP (Most valuable professional) for his contributions towards SQL Server. He is an active participant and moderator in MSDN SQL Server forum. Deepak is an MCTS certified professional and has been awarded with Level 3 and Level 4 certifications by Japanese Language Proficiency Test JLPT. Deepak is associate chapter lead for the Chennai SQL Server User Group

He blogs at http://deepakrangarajan.blogspot.com and can be reached at deepak.rangarajan@gmail.com

Credentials:

MCTS (SQL Server 2005)
MCITP (SQL Server 2008)

Leksshmanan

Leksshmanan – Predominantly known as LEXX / LEKS holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is currently doing his Masters program in Computer & Information Sciences . LEKS is in the industry for 5+ years and works for one of the Government Department in New Zealand. He is a active participant & Answerer in MSDN forums.

Credentials:

MCTS (SQL Server 2005)

Sugesh Kumar

Sugesh hails from Chennai. He holds a Bachelors Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has experience of over 5 years and has been associated with SQL Server since then. He started his professional journey as a PeopleSoft DBA with SQL Server as Back end. With more and more interest towards SQL Server, he now works as a full time SQL Server DBA. Currently he works for one among the TOP 10 IT services provider company in USA.

Credentials:

MCDBA

BrainBench certified in SQL Server 2000, Windows xp, Windows 2000

Vidhya Sagar

Vidhya Sagar has graduated in Electronics & communication engineering from Anna Varsity, Chennai in 2006. Immediately he started his career as a SQL SERVER DBA with one of the fortune listed company and he later moved to another MNC in 2008.

He has completed MCITP certification for both SQL SERVER 2005 and 2008 and he helps his community by maintaining his own blogs on SQL and answering in forums like MSDN, SQL-ARTICLES and etc. He is also a regular speaker at Chennai SQL user groups and Tech days conducted by Microsoft. Apart from SQL SERVER, Vidhya also spends his time on latest arrivals in Electronics stuffs and reads a lot on it as well. He also has experience in PHP , MySQL , .Net and Joomla.

Credentials:

MCTS (SQL Server 2005)
MCITP (SQL Server 2005)
MCITP (SQL Server 2008)
ITIL V3 Foundation