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!<\/p>\n
So, without further ado, here are the winners of the 2013 Tribal Awards.<\/p>\n
Article that saved my bacon in 2013<\/b><\/p>\n
First Place: Transaction Log VLFs – too many or too few? By Kimberly Tripp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Why Your Performance Review Sucks by Thomas LaRock <\/a><\/p>\n Blog of the Year<\/b><\/p>\n First Place:Brent Ozar Team Blog: http:\/\/www.brentozar.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Paul Randal’s Blog:\u00a0https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/<\/a><\/p>\n Person you’d most like to have a beer with<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Brent Ozar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Paul Randal<\/a><\/p>\n Best Presentation at any tech conference <\/b><\/p>\n <\/b> First Place:PASS Keynote – Dr. David DeWitt<\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: There are not the joins you’re looking for – Rob Farley<\/a><\/p>\n Best Tech User Group<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: AtlantaMDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: MADPASS<\/a><\/p>\n Best new community voice<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Mickey Stuewe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Mark Rasmussen<\/a><\/p>\n Beyond the call of duty \/ Outstanding Contribution<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Grant Fritchey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Jonathan Kehayias<\/a><\/p>\n Best Free Script<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: MaintenanceSolution.sql – Ola Hallengren<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: sp_blitz<\/a> – Brent Ozar<\/p>\n Most Authoritative voice<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Paul Randal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Paul White<\/a><\/p>\n Best outfit or costume at a tech conference<\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Gail Shaw and her Jedi Robes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Runner up: Andrea Allred<\/a><\/p>\n SQL Karaoke performer of the Year <\/b><\/p>\n First Place: Colin Stasiuk and Jason Strate Tik Tok<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n