Last year I posted on my old blog about the active SQL Server team blogs. I just happened to post on February 14th and so in every class Kimberly teaches, she makes fun of how romantic I was to post that on Valentine's Day. So what better thing to post this year than an update to that old post!
Again, this is a list of 'active' blogs, not just one-post wonders, or blogs that are inactive but have a ton of fantastic info archived on them. I've grouped them by rough area and updated the list from last year, removing some that have been inactive for many months. I've also added a list of non-SQL team blogs that I follow too. Eventually I'll put this on our blogs page too – http://www.SQLskills.com/blogs.asp.
Enjoy (and Happy Valentine's Day again Kimberly! )
General SQL Server
- Samples team – code samples, for SQL Server 2005 and 2008
- Buck Woody – BOL, Tools
- Customer Advisory team (plus checkout their dedicated site http://sqlcat.com/)
- PSS Escalation Services team – another PSS blog, lots of how-it works info
- PSS Support team
- Euan Garden – SQL, VS, …
- Dan Jones
- TechNet Magazine SQL Q&A
Compact/Express
Data Programmability
- Data Programmability team
- ADO.NET team – replaced the Data Access blog
- SQL Protocols team
- XML team
- Protocols team
- Angel Saenz-Badillos – JDBC / Linq
Storage Engine
- Storage Engine PM team – my old blog, still going strong thanks to Sunil
- Slava Oks – SQLOS / memory management
- Laurentiu Cristofor – Security
- Raul Garcia – Security
- Security Team
Service Broker
- Roger Wolter – SOA, data management
- Rushi Desai – Service Broker
- Remus Rusanu – Service Broker (inactive now Remus has left – see below for his new blog)
Relational Engine
- Query Processor team (replaces the old Query Optimizer team blog)
- Programmability & API Development team
- CLR Integration team
- Denis Ruckebusch – XML datatype (inactive now he's left MS)
- Lyudmila Fokina – various including index builds (in Russian)
- Michael Rys – XML, XQuery
- Craig Freedman – query processing, execution and plans
- Isaac Kunen – Spatial data
Analysis Services / Data Mining
Reporting Services
- John Gallardo
- Bob Meyers
- Brian Welcker
- Lukasz Pawlowski – RS, Notification Services
Sync Services / Replication
SSIS / DTS
Manageability / Tools
- Manageability team
- Michiel Wories – SMO / WMI samples (inactive)
- Gert Drapers – Data Dude
SQLskills.com Team
- Kimberly Tripp
- Stacia Misner
- Simon Sabin
- Bob Beauchemin
- Conor Cunningham
Select MVPs I Read
- Tony Rogerson
- Kalen Delaney
- Adam Machanic
- Colin Leversuch-Roberts – aka The Grumpy Old DBA
- Remus Rusanu
- Kevin Kline
- Andrew Kelly
- Tibor Karaszi
- Linchi Shea
- Sean McCown