About Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave is a common man who enjoys listening music, reading books, travelling places, watching movies and writing blogs. Pinal has over 6 years industrial experience gained through his work within the IT industry and SQL Server Community. He is a highly respected and leading figure in Indian IT field.

Education & Qualifications

Pinal Dave is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP - SQL). He is a founder and a prominent author of SQLAuthority.com. He is the author of over 700 SQL Server articles at SQLAuthority.com. He has over six years experience as a Database Administrator / Developer and Software Outsourcing Manager. He is expert in SQL Server 2008 / SQL Server 2005, .NET(C#) and ColdFusion MX technologies. He has a Masters of Science degree in Computer Networks from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He is MCDBA, MCAD (.NET) and ColdFusion Advanced MX Certified.

Professional Life

Pinal Dave is working as a Project Manager and Principal Database Administrator in leading outsourcing organization at Ahmedabad, India. His everyday duty is designing complex, scalable and efficient database structures, managing large outsourcing projects and enjoying hot coffee with co-workers. He is regular columnist in SQL Server magazine and regular speaker at technical user groups.

Personal Life

Pinal enjoys writing and reading. When he is not writing blog and not at work he is often spotted at local cinema halls and coffee shops with friends and family. Database Programming, reading or writing has never come in his way when it is about driving fast cars. Pinal's music play-list usually contains Pop Music, Instrumental and Techno Jazz. Pinal has very large book library at home, which contains books of nearly 100 different subjects.

About SQLAuthority.com

Primary interest and core expertise of Pinal is in SQL Server and Database Architecture. Pinal collects all his thoughts at one common place, SQLAuthority.com. It contains over 700 articles focused on SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 technologies only. Blog articles ranges from simple SQL scripts to complicated SQL problems and solutions.

Contact Pinal Dave

Emails are always welcome, whether you are interested in talking about projects, SQL Server, .NET, ColdFusion, Web Architecture or any other fun stuff. If you want Pinal to review your product, book, website or code, please do not hesitate to contact him. Or, feel free to say "hi" anytime. All comments are welcome.
pinaldave "at" yahoo.com
pinal "at" SQLAuthority.com