SQL Heroes

[Insert abject apology for the vacation-related delay here. Yes, the turkey-related festivities were great, thanks for asking.] The winners were announced @ SQL PASS 2008 on Friday 21 November. And belated as they may be, here’s the Official Announcement...

Tomorrow we’re going to announce the SQL Heroes winners before the keynote @ SQL PASS 2008. Be there!

I know who the winners are, but you’ll have to wait for the results until a week from Friday, though. Heh. The winners will be announced from among our nine finalists on the last day of SQL PASS 2008: Friday 21-November 2008. Be there!

Without getting into the philosophical question for the ages “Is everyone a winner?”, the question came up about Finalists­® over the weekend. Because we had to kick a number of entries that didn’t meet the simple rules outlined in the Official Contest...

Our survey got posted to Connect a little while back (life and work kept getting in the way of posting all the entries). Those of you who spend more time on Connect than is strictly healthy have already seen it and voted. There are a lot of overachievers...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “SQL 2008 Extended Events Manager”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/ExtendedEventManager/ SQL Hero: Jonathan Matthew Kehayias from the US. Personal Website: http://jmkehayias.blogspot...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “ssisUnit”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/ssisUnit   SQL Hero: John Calvin Welch from the US. Personal Website: http://www.agilebi.com A big thanks to John, on behalf of the...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “QPee Tools 1.0”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/QPee SQL Hero: Jason Massie from the US. Personal Website: http://statisticsio.com A big thanks to Jason, on behalf of the world and...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “BIDS Helper”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper SQL Hero: Greg Galloway, Darren Gosbell and John Welch from the US. Personal Website: none specified A big...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “Allocation SQL Server Management Studio Add-in”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/SSMSAllocation SQL Hero: Daniel Gould from the UK. Personal Website: http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “SQL CLR Measure Time”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/SqlClrMeasureTime SQL Hero: Gorm Braarvig from the Norway. Personal Website: http://gorm-braarvig.blogspot.com/ A big thanks...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “SqlMonitoring Tool”!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/sqlmonitoring SQL Hero: Robert Hartskeerl from the Netherlands. Personal Website: none specified A big thanks to Robert, on behalf...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have “a hash implement by basic array and link list in C#”!! (I’m tempted to make an acronym of that, but I’m not sure that it would help.) Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/hashByArrayLink...

Weighing in as a finalist in the SQL Heroes competition, we have CDCHelper!! Project URL: http://www.codeplex.com/CDCHelper/ SQL Hero: Ignat Andrei from Bucharest (Romania) Personal Website: http://serviciipeweb.ro/iafblog For those of...

Everybody wants to know how many entries there are. Well, everybody who put in an entry anyway. Heh. Next week, we're going to put up the survey for YOU to select your favorites. You're welcome to count them. Heh. I will blog about the entries,...

OK, so it's been a couple weeks since the contest entry period closed, and I've been remiss in announcing that fact. Sorry!! (Thanks for the reminder, Jonathan.) Over the next couple weeks, I will be blogging a little bit about each qualified entry...

Between frenetic RTM activities and summer vacations, I haven't posted in a while. Sorry!! The less-than-one-week countdown has started. Be sure that you've published your CodePlex projects and submitted your contest surveys. We've almost reached...

The end of the contest runway is fast approaching... and we've got some great entries! To celebrate, the WHS team has released Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 so that it will be ready and waiting if/when your entry wins. But you have to play to win,...

Paula's looking for you. Since you've created a SQL Heroes contest entry, you're obviously a qualified CodePlex Developer™, right? CodePlex project developers wanted - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft She's just looking to interview you...

I love chocolate. I think genetic engineering is interesting, if a little more art than engineering (a lot like software engineering). However, these guys would definitely be SQL Heroes in my book if they were using SQL Server. Better Chocolate Through...

I've got a few Ts left over after Tech*Ed 2008, and I don't want 'em to go to waste, so I'm going to put T-shirts for individual entrants in the mail next week. Those of you who have signed up already will be getting an email from me asking what size...

I realize that I've been MIA for a couple weeks (but I have really good excuses - heh!), but I'm sure that everyone's been waiting patiently for this: Reed Me : SQL Server 2008 RC0 Samples are up! Now that RC0 is out the door, it's time to either update...

Short Answer: No. Longer Answer: Nope. Long-ish Answer: Not at all, but you do have to PLAY to win. Heh. I.e. if you've been putting off creating your CodePlex project and submitting your contest survey, you're running out of time... Old-fashioned USENET...

Not everybody likes contests apparently... (Foex, I have yet to win anything in the game alpha testing contest that I love playing these days. *pout* ) But Dan seems to have taken an irrational dislike to YOUR contest... I'm starting a crusade at Microsoft...

Instead of cribbing the whole text of the Ms-PL and dropping it here, I'll just refer you to the source: Open Source at Microsoft: Licenses: Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) That hopefully answers the "what" question. The "why" question is a little more...