Exceptional

The contest is over and the winner is Jeff Moden! Champagne! I won’t repeat all the reasons why I think that Jeff deserves the award, I just want to say that I could not agree more with this result. To say it with Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) words: “Of the year? I think I’d put it down to of the decade, but that’s not what the contest was.” The exceptional DBA 2011 Jeff Moden will receive: [Read More]

Time has come for the annual Exceptional DBA Awards contest, sponsored by Red Gate and judged by four really exceptional DBAs: Steve Jones (blog|twitter) Rodney Landrum (blog|twitter) Brad McGehee (blog|twitter) Brent Ozar (blog|twitter) The judges picked their finalists and it would really be hard to choose the winner if I didn’t happen to know one of them. I won’t talk around it: please vote for Jeff Moden! I don’t know the other three finalists and I am sure that they really are very good DBAs, probably exceptional DBAs, otherwise they would not have made it to the final showdown. [Read More]