Klaus Aschenbrenner works as a Software Architect for ANECON (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Data Management Solutions/ISV) in Vienna - Austria. Klaus has worked with the .NET Framework and especially with SQL Server 2005 from the very beginning. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was honored with MVP awards from Microsoft for his tremendous support of the .NET Community. He currently travels around the world teaching clients the core concepts of SQL Server 2005. He also works very closely with Microsoft to drive the next version of SQL Server codenamed Katmai.