Roger E. Sanders is the President of Roger Sanders Enterprises, Inc., and a Senior Consultant Corporate Systems Engineer with EMC Corporation. He has been working with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows since it was first introduced on the IBM PC (as part of OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition) and is the author of 22 books on relational database technology (21 books are on DB2 and one book is on ODBC).
For the past nine years, Roger has authored the
Distributed DBA column in
IBM Data Management Magazine (formerly
DB2 Magazine) and, over a 14-year period, he has written numerous tutorials and articles for IBM's developerWorks Web site as well as for publications such as
Certification Magazine and
IDUG Solutions
Journal (the official magazine of the International DB2 User's Group).
In 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, Roger was recognized as an IBM Champion for his contributions to the IBM Data Management community; in 2010, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Contributing Author, and in 2011, he was recognized as an IBM developerWorks Professional Author for his contributions to IBM's developerWorks Web site. He lives in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (population 39,042).
