With all of the challenges in 2020, we are very proud of each and every accomplishment by all of the MSSQLTips.com Authors. We are excited to announce the seventh annual MSSQLTips.com Author and Rookie of the Year. In 2020, we made a few changes including splitting the Author of the Year into four categories – DBA, Developer, Business Intelligence and Cloud Professionals. We also included new ways for Authors to garner votes with additional community promotions, impactful ideas and more. Authors that had at least 10 published tips qualified for the Author of the Year and new authors in 2020 that had at least 5 published tips qualified for the Rookie of the Year.
Please congratulate the contenders and winners in the form below! All of these authors deserve significant recognition for all of their contributions and we encourage all of the authors to take it to the next level to provide the community with even more beneficial content in 2021!
- 2020 Author of the Year Contenders
- 2020 Rookie of the Year Contenders
Based on the community, peer and leadership voting for Author of the Year and Rookie of the Year, we are pleased to announce the 2020 winners.
DBA of 2020 | Dev of 2020 | BI Pro of 2020 | Cloud Pro of 2020 | Rookie of 2020 |
On behalf of the community, we would like to congratulate Alejandro, Sergey, Koen, Ron, Ryan and all the authors that qualified for these awards. All of the author contributions are valued by the community and we look forward to many more contributions by all of our authors and all new 2021 authors. “Thank you” on behalf of the global SQL Server community.
Please take some time to congratulate and thank these authors for their contributions to the SQL Server community in the comments section below.
Also, check out the past winners: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.
Thank you,
The MSSQLTips.com Team
P.S. We are already in search of the 2021 Rookie and Author of the Year. If you are interested in joining the MSSQLTips.com Author Team, please click here to get started.

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Congratulations to all the winners. Keep it up and may all of you keep on learning and sharing knowledge to everyone. May God bless you and this community always so that all of us in this community continue to be a blessings to others always.
Congratulations to the winners! Thank you very much, Jeremy and Greg!
Congratulations to the winners and nominees!
Thank you Greg, Jeremy, and the MSSQLTips community for the opportunity to continue writing.
Best wishes to all for 2021!
Thank you so much for you work and help. Please keep it up!
Congratulations to all the winners, very well done!!
Congratulations to everyone!!!
It’s a total blessing to be a part of this.
Thanks for the opportunity Greg & Jeremy!!!
The best to the nominees and all of the contributors on 2020, with all its goods and bads. SQL Hall of Fame is waiting some of you to keep up the good work even more years from now. I am grateful to you all. Thx.
Congrats to the other winners! Well deserved.
I would like to congratulate all of our authors and everyone that contributes to the MSSQLTips.com community. Without the support of our contributors and sponsors MSSQLTips wouldn’t be this great SQL Server resource.
With that, I would like to offer congrats to our winners for 2020: Ryan, Alejandro, Sergey, Koen and Ron.
Looking forward to all of the great new content in 2021 from all of our contributors.
Ryan,
Congrats on being recognized as the MSSQLTips.com 2020 Rookie of the Year. This was an extremely close vote that was separated by only a few votes and a recount. Congrats and thank you!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
Ron,
Congrats and very impressive - 2019 Rookie of the Year and now 2020 Cloud Professional of the Year! Keep it up! Congrats and thank you!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
Koen,
Congrats on all of your Power BI, ADF, SSRS, SSIS, etc. tips! Since 2014 you have provided a great deal of value to BI Developers around the globe. Congrats and thank you!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
Congrats to all the winners. I regularly read your articles, and I appreciate them.
Best of luck next year.
Sergey,
Congrats on being recognized as the MSSQLTips.com 2020 Developer. We appreciate all you have done to help the MSSQLTips.com community since 2015 and hope to work with you more in 2021! Congrats and thank you!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
To Alejandro,
Congrats on being recognized as the MSSQLTips.com 2020 DBA. Great job with your PowerShell Monitoring Series. Would love to see you expand the series and branch out into some new PowerShell topics. Congrats and thank you!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
Congratulations to the winners!! Well deserved!
Many congratulations to all of you!!
Keep sharing your knowledge and experiences
Congratulations to all!
To all of the MSSQLTips.com Authors,
Congratulations on all of your accomplishments in 2020. Thank you for all of your help for the global SQL Server Community. As a team we are able to help the global SQL Server community every second of the day. Let’s make 2021 even better!
Thank you,
Jeremy Kadlec
Community Co-Leader
Great Work All.. Well deserved!
Congratulations to all of you!
Well done. And congratulations to the winners.