New Bloggers Adam Haines and David Dye

We’ve got two new syndicated bloggers at SQLServerPedia this week!

Adam Haines

Adam (Blog) is an MCP Database Administrator/Developer and a proud recipient of the MVP award. He’s been in databases since 2004, first in the banking industry as a database analyst. He transitioned into his current DBA & developer role in 2007, and still does both development and administration.  Adam is also a moderator and frequent poster on the MSDN SQL Server forums. Adam is also part of the team at TSQLChallenges.  Some of his recent posts include:

• How to Split a Delimited String – using a numbers table or XML, with plenty of example scripts.
• Should You Use Embedded TSQL or a Stored Proc? – he gives the pros and cons of each approach for reports in SSRS.
• Locking and Loading (a table) – Adam and Aaron Bertrand (Blog – Twitter) worked on a solution to load data faster by creating a schema temporarily.

David Dye

Despite its name, David’s new blog does not have anything to do with the Safety Dance.  Try to contain your disappointment.  On the plus side, he’s a Sergeant with the Cape Coral Police Department (now THAT is a job title) and currently works as a database administrator and developer in the Administrative Services Division.  He began his career with the police department in 1990 in the patrol division and worked various assignments until being promoted to Sergeant in 1998.  Based on his education and experience David was assigned to his current position in 2002 and is responsible for database administration, software integration, and development for public safety.

David’s primary focus and expertise is with SQL Server, reporting services, integration services, and analysis services, and he was recognized for his work by SQL Server Magazine as “Innovator of the Year” runner up in 2007.  David is an MCITP for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 in both database administration and business intelligence and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer.  He regularly posts on the MSDN SQL Server forums where he also serves as a moderator, and is a contributor at SQLCLR.net.  In addition to his knowledge of SQL Server David works as a software developer using VB.net and C# and has worked extensively in SharePoint development.

His first couple of posts include:

• Problems connecting to SSIS named instances – David walks through how he solved it.
• Formatting names with proper case – need to automagically capitalize the first letter of words?

Welcome to these two new bloggers!  We’re mounting up an army of bloggers over at SQLServerPedia, and that presents some interesting challenges and opportunities.  We’ve got some new things coming next year to showcase the people behind all this knowledge.  Stay tuned…