Throughout December, Simple-Talk and SQL Server Central hosted the Tribal Awards. With these awards, we let the technical community choose members who they felt deserved recognition by opening up both nominations and voting to the public. We’re very pleased to be able to announce the winners for each category listed below. The winners were decided by sheer number of votes, some won by a landslide and others by the smallest of margins. We’d like to thank the 800 voters who got involved to make the Tribal Awards something special, and congratulations to our victors!
So, without further ado, here are the winners of the 2013 Tribal Awards.
Article that saved my bacon in 2013
First Place: Transaction Log VLFs – too many or too few? By Kimberly Tripp
Runner up: Why Your Performance Review Sucks by Thomas LaRock
Blog of the Year
First Place:Brent Ozar Team Blog: http://www.brentozar.com/blog/
Runner up: Paul Randal’s Blog: https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/
Person you’d most like to have a beer with
First Place: Brent Ozar
Runner up: Paul Randal
Best Presentation at any tech conference
First Place:PASS Keynote – Dr. David DeWitt
Runner up: There are not the joins you’re looking for – Rob Farley
Best Tech User Group
First Place: AtlantaMDF
Runner up: MADPASS
Best new community voice
First Place: Mickey Stuewe
Runner up: Mark Rasmussen
Beyond the call of duty / Outstanding Contribution
First Place: Grant Fritchey
Runner up: Jonathan Kehayias
Best Free Script
First Place: MaintenanceSolution.sql – Ola Hallengren
Runner up: sp_blitz – Brent Ozar
Most Authoritative voice
First Place: Paul Randal
Runner up: Paul White
Best outfit or costume at a tech conference
First Place: Gail Shaw and her Jedi Robes
Runner up: Andrea Allred
SQL Karaoke performer of the Year
First Place: Colin Stasiuk and Jason Strate Tik Tok)
Runner up: Ed Watson – Just a Gigolo
Finally, a big congratulations to all our nominees, everyone has been great and hopefully we’ll be able to do something similar again next year.
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