All the preaching I’ve been doing lately about starting a blog, publicizing it, and building your resume online has resonated with you. I’ve got four new syndicated bloggers on deck today – we’re up to 63 syndicated bloggers, something I never could have imagined when we started syndicating blogs at SQLServerPedia. I’m really proud of what we – the community – has built there in the last year. Introducing…
Kendra Little (Blog – @Kendra_Little)
Kendra is a senior DBA with a decade of SQL experience, and she currently works in the online ad industry. She designs, plans, and executes releases & changes for OLTP & OLAP systems, plus automates maintenance, performance monitoring, and reporting for server health. In the midst of all that, she’s a frequent Twitterer and blogger:
- Error Configuring DataCollector – she ran into problems configuring the Management Data Warehouse, then not only took the time to document how she fixed it, thereby making your life easier if you ever Google this problem, but she even filed a bug on Connect! That’s dedication.
- Follow Friday: @SQLSaurus – I stopped doing FollowFridays on Twitter a while back because I couldn’t cram enough good information about someone into a tweet. Kendra fixed that by writing an entire blog post – and a drawing – about a tweep. Nice work!
- Change Data Capture vs Change Tracking – this is another example of why reading blogs will give you a head start on the Microsoft Certified Master program. This topic is covered in the MCM, and if you read blogs before you enroll, your head will be chock full of explanations already.
Piotr Rodak (Blog)
Do me a favor – if you code T-SQL, go click on Piotr’s blog right now, and read the “if” statement at the top of the page. Tell me that isn’t funny. When he’s not writing T-SQL statements with double meanings, he’s working as a senior database developer and database architect for one of the biggest financial institutions in the world. He’s got over 17 years of experience in IT, and he passes it on in his blog:
- INSTEAD OF triggers on views – shows how to update multiple tables simultaneously in a trigger. I am *so* stealing this technique for one of my presentations.
- Coding Best Practices – Naming Constraints – this isn’t a default, but it’s an extremely good idea, and he explains why. The best practices are backed up with these kinds of examples.
- How to Prepare Sample Data – a common problem that he solves with simple queries, not an add-on product.
Shaun Stuart (Blog)
Shaun’s a senior DBA who’s been working with SQL Server since 1997. He’s been blogging for years and just recently decided to start blogging about SQL Server. Some of his recent posts include:
- There Can Be Only One – in which he asks the classic interview question, “How many clustered indexes can a table have?”
- Problems with SQL 2008 SP1 CU7 on a Cluster – Shaun explains how to fix an issue he ran into. His solution reminds me of why the best DBAs succeed. It isn’t about book learnin’ – it’s about being willing to roll your sleeves up and figure things out logically.
- Policy Based Management Strangeness – he dives into PBM, a tricky new feature of SQL Server 2008.
Todd Robinson (Blog – @DevSQL)
I met Todd a couple of years ago at a PASS Summit where he was volunteering. He’s been through one of the toughest gigs at PASS – being on the Program Committee, the group responsible for picking which speakers and sessions are chosen. I don’t envy him, and I thank him for his work! In addition to volunteering, he works as a Senior Database Developer for Travelport, does technical editing and writing, and helped develop Microsoft certification exams for SQL Server and .NET. Some of his recent posts include:
- NoSQL versus SQL – Todd talks about it in terms of speed and relates it to the Windows AppFabric Cache.
- Building a Presentation for PASS AppDev VC – Todd’s work on the AppFabric Cache is cutting edge. Most people aren’t using caching for their database tier, and his knowledge would help a lot of people. He touches on why it can be rough presenting on topics like this – there’s stuff under NDA.
