David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Data Storage Platform division where he is responsible for driving technical strategy and architecture of Microsoft SQL Server and other storage products. He also helps drive architectural alignment across Microsoft’s Server and Tools division. Dave’s current projects and interests include extreme scale data processing and programmatic data services.

Campbell joined Microsoft in 1994 as a developer and architect on the SQL Server Storage Engine team that was principally responsible for rewriting the core engine of SQL Server for SQL Server Version 7.0. He has held a variety of roles within the SQL Server division, including product level architect, and General Manager of product development.

Prior to Microsoft, Campbell worked at Digital Equipment Corporation on the DEC Rdb and DEC DBMS product development teams.

Campbell holds several patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a wide variety of data management and software development topics.

Dave lives in Sammamish, WA with his wife Marcia and two teenage sons.