Gianluca Hotz is a consultant, trainer and speaker specialized in architecture, database design, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning, system integration and migrations for Microsoft SQL Server. He has been working as a consultant in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996. Gianluca joined SolidQ as a mentor in 2003. Among the original founders of http://www.ugidotnet.org and http://www.ugiss.org, where he served as vice-president between 2001 and 2016 and he's currently serving as president, for his contribution to the community he has been a SQL Server MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) since 1998.