Biography
Rick Byham worked at Microsoft from 1995 to 2017. Rick started in database Customer Support, and then moved to Microsoft Learning, where he created official public courseware for SQL Server and worked on the Microsoft certification exams. Beginning in 2003, as a senior writer for SQL Server Books Online, Rick created the first documentation for many new features in Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Rick has Microsoft certifications as a Database Administrator, Systems Engineer, and Systems Administrator.