MSSQLTips Author Voting

Voting for 2023 is now closed. Stay tuned for the winners.

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Author of the Year

Eligibility = 10+ tips published in 2023.

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Daniel Calbimonte (Category = DBA) has written more than 150 articles for DBA, Developer, Professional Development and BI with his first tip in 2012. In 2023, Daniel contributed 24 new articles on various SQL Server topics.
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Kenneth A. Omorodion (Category = BI) has had 58 articles published on MSSQLTips related to Power, BI DevOps and Azure since his start in 2020. In 2023 he wrote 12 new articles.
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Rick Dobson (Category = DEV) has been contributing SQL Server DBA and Development tips since 2011 with over 180 articles. In 2023, he wrote 24 new articles around statistics and working with financial data.
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John Miner (Category = Cloud) has helped the community with 100+ tips on SQL Azure, Power BI and more since 2015. In 2023, he contributed 14 articles on various aspects of  the cloud. He won the Cloud Pro of the Year award in 2022
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Jared Westover (Category = DEV) started writing in 2022 and has written 36 articles about various aspects of development, design, performance and more. In 2023, Jared wrote 23 new articles.
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Sergey Gigoyan (Category = DBA) is a talented DBA\ Developer working on database design and development, performance tuning and more. He started writing in 2015 and has contributed 99 tips. In 2023 he had 12 new contributions.
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Hristo Hristov (Category = DEV) started writing in 2021 and has 49 articles published around Power Apps and Python. This year, Hristo contributed 12 new articles and worked on several other content initiatives related to data quality and Power BI.
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Pablo Echeverria (Category = DBA) has delivered 50+ tips on topics such as PowerShell, Monitoring, Configurations, Daily Operations, and more. He started writing in 2017 and had 10 new articles published in 2023.
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Koen Verbeeck (Category = BI) has contributed tips on SSIS, ADF, Microsoft Fabric, and more. Koen wrote 26 articles in 2023 and has over  260+ articles since 2013. He won the BI Pro of the Year award in 2022.
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Ron L'Esteve (Category = Cloud) is a seasoned Data Architect and has delivered 105+ in-depth tips since 2019. This year Ron has written 13 new articles for the MSSQLTips community.
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Hadi Fadlallah (Category = BI) started writing in 2022 and has written 16 articles related to SSIS, TSQL, tuning, and more. He was the 2022 Rookie of the Year and this year he contributed 10 new articles.
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Nai Biao Zhou (Category = DEV) is a Developer specializing in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Mining and solution architecture design. He has contributed 10 new articles this year with a total of 50 in-depth articles since 2018.
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Harris Amjad (Category = DEV) started writing in 2022 and has 20 articles related to Power BI, TSQL, and more. For 2023, Harris had an additional 15 articles published.
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Rajendra Gupta (Category = DBA) has been sharing tips since 2011 with over 150 articles. He has written many articles related to SSMS, AWS, and Azure. This year he published 18 new articles. He won the DBA of the Year award in 2022.
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Levi Masonde (Category = DEV) started writing in 2022 and has contributed 15 articles mostly related to Python. This year, Levi had 10 new articles published on MSSQLTips.
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Joe Gavin (Category = DBA) is a SQL Server DBA from Greater Boston focusing on DBA topics, Azure, Health Checks and more. Joe has written 70+ articles since 2018. This year he added 12 new articles to that overall number.
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Temidayo Omoniyi (Category = BI) had his first article published in 2023 with a total of 12 articles this year related to Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and Power BI.
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Aaron Bertrand (Category = DBA) has been an author on MSSQLTips since 2010 with 220+ tips on administration, design, development, security, TSQL, performance, and much more. He contributed 10 new articles in 2023.
Rookie of the Year

Eligibility = First tip published in 2023 with 5+ tips published.

rookie of the year candidate
Amira Bedhiafi (Category = BI) started writing in 2023 and has 5 articles this year related to several topics around Business Intelligence.
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Mehdi Ghapanvari (Category = DBA) started writing in 2023 and has 9 articles this year related to Indexing, Performance Tuning and SQL Server 2002.
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Nirali Shastri (Category = DBA) had her first tip published in 2023 and has contributed 5 articles this year related to several topics such as administration, SQL on Linux and more.