This site and SQLClue are the creations of Bill Wunder. Bill is a Microsoft SQL Server DBA, VB.NET Developer, Data Architect, mentor and SQL trainer with over 20 years of database experience. Bill has worked with Microsoft SQL Server since 1993. His personal experiences include a range of industries and organizational structures from fluffy investor funded Internet startups to government contractors, hard goods distributors to high tech equipment manufacturer, real time stock traders to on-line financial news aggregators, credit card processors to on-line sports books, one man IT operations to multi-national conglomerates. Regardless of the business model or industry, Bill has been highly effective in improving the SQL Server experience for the IT organization. He has a proven track record in producing SQL Server administrative, performance, and monitoring tools that work.
Bill has been actively involved as the On-Line SQL Server DBA community has emerged and evolved over the past several years. In 1995 He began to prototype an "admin subsystem" on the Internet. The purpose was to build and document tools to automate the routine drudgeries of administering a SQL Server 6.5. This subsystem included tutorials on automation of DBCCs, backup/restore, log shipping, generic script generation and an ever growing library of SQL and .BAT scripts and utilities. The subsystem has been augmented with coding standards, change control guidelines over time.
In 2001, Bill began what turned out to be a long, challenging and enjoyable adventure into the development of licensed software. Starting with Visual Basic 5, he produced a tool to extract the DDL from a SQL Server and process it into a Visual SourceSafe repository: Bill Wunder's DDL Archive Utility. The product was updated several times in the effort to keep pace with the ever-changing technology and enjoyed some popularity. As SQL Server technologies moved forward, Bill recognized that the tools we use to support the database server must also progress. Early in the beta cycles of SQL Server 2005, while working on a project that created two Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) SQL Server training course, Bill solidified the already recognized need for a more scalable and robust architecture than was provided by the Archive Utility. After a fairly steep and deep learning curve for the server side facilities new with SQL Server 2005, it became evident to Bill that the time proven runbook approach was necessary to achieve the most effective change monitoring and management practices for today's fast paced and ever changing SQL Server environments. Based on his experience and knowledge, combined with his proven knack for building usable DBA software tools and for building effective data center teams, Bill provides the SQL Server Administrator's Console and SQLClue.