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…

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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Ask Colin Stasiuk, aka @BenchmarkIT on Twitter:

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That’s great news!  It’s not all due to SQLServerPedia, though – Colin’s been writing great blog posts at his blog, BenchmarkITConsulting.com.

You can read more about syndicating your blog at SQLServerPedia.

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

Kevin Kline (Blog – Twitter)

How do I even begin to introduce Kevin?  He’s the former President of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS).  He writes columns in Database Trends & Applications and SQL Server Magazine.  He’s written book after book, including the epic O’Reilly SQL in a Nutshell.  He’s Technical Strategy Manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software, a leading provider of award winning tools for database management and application monitoring.

Kevin’s always blogged at SQLServerPedia, but now he’s got his own blog at KevinEKline.com, and we’re syndicating posts from there instead.  I’m a huge believer in everyone having their own blog where their original content lives, and I’m tickled pink that Kevin’s doing it too.  It’s so important to have your own identifiable web brand, even for SQL Server superstars like Kevin.

Some of Kevin’s recent blog posts include:

• More About Successful Directors versus Successful Technologists – this post is a great example about why you need to have your own blog.  Kevin elaborates on articles he did at other sites and links to other bloggers.  This is the kind of thing you can really only do if you’ve got your own blog presence.
• Great Blogs from Microsoft SQL Server Teams – Kevin points out some of his favorite blogs.
• Upcoming Events – Kevin’s upcoming speaking engagements.

Mladen Prajdic (Blog – Twitter)

Mladen is known for two things: a difficult-to-pronounce Slovenian name and for his SQL Server Management Studio Tools Pack, a free add-in for SSMS.  How many developers do you know that care enough to build free tools for the community in their spare time, plus blog?  That says a lot!  Some of Mladen’s recent blog posts include:

• Fast Running Totals with a Common Table Expression – Mladen shows off his l33t T-SQL skills.
• High Performance Event System with Extended Events – how to track SQL Server performance with this new feature.
• How to Check When SQL Server Was Installed – Mladen saw a question on Twitter, answered it, and then wrote a blog post about it.  Again – that’s dedication!

Ross Mistry (Blog – Twitter)

Ross is a principal consultant & partner for Convergent Computing. He’s a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and he specializes in upgrades, high availability, security and virtualization.  He’s the author of the excellent book SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, which I reviewed and highly recommended.  I’m also doing a webcast this week with him and Kevin Kline about SQL Server books.

Ross has been blogging over at NetworkWorld, but like Kevin, he’s also taken the step to create a blog under his own domain name.  I just installed WordPress for him and configured it, so he doesn’t have any blog entries yet.

If you’re a syndicated blogger and, like Ross, you’ve been thinking about building your own SQL Server brand but you haven’t quite been able to find the time to set it up, I’ll make you a deal.  I’m such a big believer in it that I’ll set you up for free.  I’ll buy your domain name, set up WordPress for you, and give you a year of WordPress hosting.  All you need to do is write blog posts, and you own ‘em.

If you’d like to syndicate your SQL Server blog at SQLServerPedia, check out my article on How to Syndicate Your SQL Server Blog.

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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Steve Novoselac is the newest addition to the collection of syndicated SQL Server blogs at SQLServerPedia. He’s a Business Intelligence manager at Trek Bicycle Corporation.

Steve Novoselac

Steve joins Chris Webb as one of our BI-focused bloggers with recent topics like:

• Using Offline OLAP in Excel 2007 – every time I read something about Excel 2007′s BI capabilities, I get more excited.
• Business Intelligence != Reporting – amen.  Reporting by itself is just data.
• SSIS collation between databases – a tip for people who work with databases of different collations.

Steve is ScaleOvenSteve on Twitter, and he’s active there too – go follow him.  He gave a resume tip that made me laugh out loud.

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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