Last month, I joined forces with Andy Warren (Blog – Twitter) and Jeremiah Peschka (Blog – Twitter) to recognize you, dear blogger, for doing such a great job with your blogs. We wanted to give thanks to the community for churning out so much top-notch material, and there were definitely a lot of great nominations. We spent hours reading and rereading some really phenomenal blogs. Just because you don’t see your name here doesn’t mean you weren’t good – some of these came down to tenths of a point out of a 30-point scale.
With no further ado, here’s the best of the blogs this year:
Best Blog Series (Multiple Posts):
- Winner: Kendal Van Dyke for Disk Performance Hands-On Series (Blog – RSS – @SQLDBA)
- Runner-Up: Tie:
Aaron Alton for SSMS Series (Blog – RSS – @AaronTheHobt)
Aaron Bertrand for Bad Habits to Kick Series (Blog – RSS – @AaronBertrand)
Best Business Intelligence Blog Post:
- Winner: Chris Webb for Implementing SSRS Drilldowns (Blog – RSS)
- Runner-Up: Michelle Ufford for Using Variables in SSIS (Blog – RSS – @SQLFool)
Best New Blog:
- Winner (Tie):
Aaron Alton for The Hobt (Blog – RSS – @AaronTheHobt)
Michelle Ufford for SQLFool (Blog – RSS – @SQLFool) - Runner-Up: Jorge Segarra for SQLChicken (Blog – RSS – @SQLChicken)
Best Professional Development Blog Post:
- Winner: Kendal Van Dyke for Off-Hours Work Guide for Managers (Blog – RSS – @SQLDBA)
- Runner-Up: Sean McCown for Landing That Job (Blog – RSS – @MidnightDBA)
Best T-SQL Blog Post:
- Winner: Aaron Bertrand for Stored Procedures Best Practices Checklist (Blog – RSS – @AaronBertrand)
- Runner-Up: Grant Fritchey for Unpacking the View (Blog – RSS – @GFritchey)
Best Unusual Blog Post:
- Winner: Alex Kuznetsov for Reproducing Deadlocks with One Table (Blog – RSS)
- Runner-Up: John Magnabosco for Encrypting Large Values (Blog – RSS)
We’re going to put together a badge for the winners to display on their blogs, and we’ll be doing some email interviews with the winners. If you’re at #SQLPASS this week, congratulate these bloggers for the killer work they’ve put out, and if you’re not, take a moment to subscribe to their blogs and send them a congratulatory tweet. They’re doing this just for the love of the community, helping out folks like you and me, and we need to recognize them for working so hard.
WOW thank you so much! Had no idea I’d won anything until I logged into Twitter this morning and someone congratulated me lol
Congratulations every one. well deserved and good picks.
Big Congrats! Some great posts and bloggers listed up there.
Cool! Congrats to everyone on the list!
One correction: Aaron is no longer blogging on BlogSpot, so the Blog/RSS links are not current. Several weeks ago I invited him to join SQLblog and he accepted the offer, so please check out more of his excellent content at his new home:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_alton/default.aspx
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_alton/rss.aspx
Adam – hmmm, that’s where my links point to already.
Your links point to thehobt.blogspot.com. At least, that’s how it’s loading on my end.
DAMN, I’m an idiot. You said “Aaron” and I immediately thought Bertrand. Sorry, I’ll fix that. (Although Aaron Bertrand should be a little amused, hahaha.)
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