Conor Cunningham has worked at Microsoft for well over a decade. His primary interests are building database engines, query processors, and specifically query optimizers. He also works in distributed systems, algorithms, and in business process management/efficiency strategies. Conor also has worked at Lombardi in Austin (now part of IBM) on Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. Conor has run software projects using a variety of methods from Waterfall to SCRUM/various Agile methods.
Conor blogs about SQL Server Queries on a blog called “Conor vs. SQL.” He is the author of a number of peer-reviewed academic papers, has authored more than 10 patent disclosures on database engine design, and wrote a chapter for the book “SQL Server 2008 Internals” on how the SQL Server Query Optimizer works. He lives with his family in Austin, TX.