Dan Cruikshank has been an IT Professional since 1972. He has served in several capacities, both operations and programming. He has been a consultant on a number of different project areas since 1988.

Dan became an IBM employee in 1998. From 1989 until April of 1993 Dan was the lead architect for several IBM internal tool projects which involved the use of RPG with embedded SQL. This included the original prototype for Operational Assistant which became part of the V1R3 release of OS/400. Since April of 1993, Dan has been focused primarily on resolving i5/iSeries/AS/400 application and system performance related issues at several IBM customer accounts. Many of these became the basis for a number of published articles appearing in iSeries News (formerly News/400).

Since 1999 Dan's primary focus has been on DB2 and SQL performance related issues. Besides continued performance analysis, he also teaches the IBM DB2 UDB for iSeries SQL and Query Optimization class held four times a year in Rochester, MN. In between teaching Dan is involved in a number of projects including database design reviews, SQL tuning and the migration of DDS generated databases to SQL DDL created databases

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