Sad news - Ken Henderson passed away yesterday
Unfortunately for the SQL Server community, Ken Henderson passed away yesterday.
Many will remember Ken for his "Gurus Guide" SQL Server books which are amongst the most highly regarded technical resources available. I had the privilege of working with Ken as a reviewer of the final edition of this series & learned a great deal during the process from a true master of SQL Server technology.
In addition to Ken's professional duties at Microsoft, he also participated in many community events as a speaker, wrote in-depth technical articles and maintained an excellent technical blog.
I learned significantly from Ken's various works, particularly in relation to the finer points of disk IO, memory management and SQL Server's UMS / SQLOS process scheduling internals.
I wish I had the chance to have met him in person to thank him for his willingness to draw on his experiences and share very useful technical information with everyone who was interested.
RIP Ken and my condolences to your family.