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About the Technical Reviewer
Nadir Doctor is a database and data warehousing architect
and a DBA who has worked in various industries with
multiple OLTP and OLAP technologies. He has also
worked on primary data platforms, including Snowflake,
Databricks, CockroachDB, DataStax, Cassandra, ScyllaDB,
Redis, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Db2 Cloud, AWS, Azure,
and GCP. His major focus is health-check scripting for
security, high availability, performance optimization, cost
reduction, and operational excellence. He has presented
at several technical conference events, is active in user group participation, and can be
reached on LinkedIn.
Thank you to Andrew and all the staff at Springer. I’m grateful for the immense support
of my loving wife, children, and family during the technical review of this book. I hope that
you all find the content enjoyable, inspiring, and useful.
—Nadir