The #SSPDreamTrip contest keeps attracting new members to the community. You can read more about the contest, and here’s our four newest bloggers:
Jason Crider (Blog – Twitter)
Jason is a DBA/Sysadmin in Little Rock, Arkansas with over 10 years of IT experience. He holds a degree in Management Information Systems, a Masters in Christian Education, and is a certified MCITP Database Administrator for SQL Server 2005. Some of his recent posts include:
- Upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to 2005 – Jason noticed that we didn’t have much info at SQLServerPedia about this highly requested topic, so he’s building a multi-part blog series and converting that into a wiki article.
- Setting Up Your SQL Server – with links to a lot of resources on best practices.
- Problems with the SQL Server Upgrade Advisor – this is a neat but seldom-used tool that can help you find problems in your code before you upgrade.
John Sterrett (Blog)
John works for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP a Database Professional and Web Engineering Specialist in Wheeling, WV (Pittsburgh Area). He focuses on developing data driven applications and database management. Some of John’s recent posts include:
- Can SQLSaturday Happen in Wheeling, WV? He’s working to bring this popular SQL Server training event to town, and he could use your help if you live nearby.
- Find Tables Containing A Certain Column Name – I love the information_schema views. Once you learn to script these, they come in so handy for all kinds of things.
- Backup Compression with SQL Server 2008 – 2008′s Enterprise Edition finally brought this long-demanded feature, and John talks about his compression findings.
Lee Anne Pedersen (Blog – Twitter)
Lee Anne is a SQL Server administrator with seven years of experience. She also tinkers in server administration, database development and programming. When not studying SQL, Lee Anne is learning how to trade on the stock market. Some of her recent posts include:
- Where in the World is SQL Server 2008? No, it’s not a comment about the low adoption rate, but a tutorial on spatial data.
- Discovering Aliases and Symptoms – Oracle folks use aliases kind of like SQL Server DBAs use linked servers, but different. SQL Server’s new synonym feature gets even closer.
- Disappointment But Hope – Like many other DBAs I’ve heard, Lee Anne was initially approved to go to the PASS Summit, but the recession knocked out those plans.
Todd McDermid (Blog)
Todd has been developing software for two decades. In recent years, he’s discovered Business Intelligence and the Microsoft platform – turning him into an evangelist for using BI to support performance management in his current organization. He’s currently a moderator of the MSDN SSIS forums, coordinator of several CodePlex open-source projects, a frequent blogger on SSIS topics, and has spoken at a few user group meetings and conferences. Some of his recent posts include:
- Looking Forward to Win 7′s XP Mode v2 – Todd talks about the challenges he’s had with this new virtualization technology.
- One Year Milestone – he looks back at his most popular posts. I used to do this on Jan 1 every year, need to get back to doing that.
- Microsoft’s BI Certifications – the weaknesses of the current BI certification roadmap. This same problem exists on the engine side too – I’d love to see a “Performance Tuner” certification, for example, because the current certs just don’t mean that much.
Two More Bloggers On Deck
We’ve had several requests from bloggers who write in other languages, but I didn’t want to have multiple languages in our RSS feed. Long-term, we’ll need to create separate RSS feeds per language, but for now, two bloggers have decided to start writing in English to start reaching more readers. I’m pairing them up with English-savvy editors to help improve the quality of their blogs. More news on that this week.
Thanks for the new bloggers. I liked Lee Anne’s article on Spatial data in 2008. Maybe someday I can do some work with it.