SQL Server TV Show Contest Winner

I ran a contest recently asking you for SQL Server TV show ideas.  The winner would get an autographed copy of our new book, Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting.  My shipment of books finally came in from Wiley, and it’s time to give one away!

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My favorites, in chronological order of submission:

* Trek Next Generation – Jen McCown (Blog – Twitter)

Pilot: Encounter at Checkpoint

In the first 21st Century Star Trek, we meet Captain Ben-Gan Picard, commander of the Microsoft flagship SQLEnterprise. En route to the distant Checkpoint Station, the SQLEnterprise is made to wait by the all-powerful, capricious being Queue, who judges the SQLEnterprise crew of DBAs as unworthy. Queue stops our heroes from continuing its five year mission to seek out new data and new quantifications, until they first pass a performance test. Once they arrive at Checkpoint Station, the away team – led by the Captain’s #1, Commander William P. Randall – find the city mysteriously filled to capacity.

Make your own Commander Data jokes here.

Whose Line of Code Is It Anyway? – Tim Ford (Blog – Twitter)

Where Developers blame each other for bad coding after being caught by the DBA. Or where they write code on the fly with suggestions from the audience while wearing funny hats and not using their own hands.

The DB-A-Team – Bob Pusateri (Twitter)

After being sentenced to deal with abysmal code and uncooperative developers, they promptly escaped from a maximum security datacenter and survive as DBAs of fortune…

“I love it when a query plan comes together!”

The Brad Shulz Network (Blog)

Brad put together an entire lineup, complete with:

• Little House on the Query
• America’s Next Top Model Database
• Null House
• The Outer Join Limits
• Buffer the Vampire Slayer

And the Winner Is….

I’m so totally going to get accused of favoritism after she won the SQLServerPedia Dream Trip to PASS last year and now this, but you gotta give it up for Jen McCown’s * Trek pilot!  I kept giggling at the thought of Queue.  Jen will be getting a signed copy of Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting.  Congratulations!

I’ll be running more contests here and over at SQLServerTroubleshooting.com over the next few weeks to give away the rest.  Good luck!

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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