Awards » Results

Thanks to All Who Participated!

This is the first year that we've hosted the SQLServerPedia awards, and we're really pleased with how many people participated in this exciting new tradition. Editors Iain Kick, Kevin Kline, and Jeremiah Peschka reviewed countless posts and chose their favorite ones. You voted on them from November 1 to November 8…and now the results are in!

Category Winner # Posts # Votes Results
33 2529
Book Review Defensive Database Programming Chapter 01 Jason Brimhall 3 287 Results
Business Intelligence Your First OLAP Report Valentino Vranken 2 202 Results
Indexing and Design One wide index or multiple narrow indexes? Gail Shaw 2 103 Results
Internals Two Myths About ‘Lock Pages in Memory’ Bob Pusateri 4 305 Results
Management and Automation SSIS SharePoint Backup Package David Dye 3 574 Results
New to SQLServerPedia Gethyn Ellis 6 527 Results
Professional Development 10 Character Traits of Outstanding DBA’s John Sansom 5 210 Results
Series Index Black Ops 4 175 Results
Transact-SQL The most optimal join type Gail Shaw 4 146 Results

SQLServerPedia Awards Cocktail Party

  • Date: Tuesday, November 9
  • Time: 8:00-10:00 PM
  • Location:

    Tap House Grill (next to Niketown)
    1506 Sixth Ave.
    Seattle, WA 98101
    (206) 816-3314

Leaderboard (all categories)

Top Posts
Title Score
SSIS SharePoint Backup Package 280
Your First OLAP Report 181
Automate SQL DR Restore 167
Gethyn Ellis 158
Defensive Database Programming Chapter 01 139
Top Contributors
Contributor Score
David Dye 280
Gail Shaw 240
Valentino Vranken 181
Mike Walsh 178
Ryan Adams 167

*Contest Rules: Current or former Quest and ISV employees are exempt from the contest. Read the complete contest rules »