The March nomination is Gareth Swanepoel (B|T).

If you don’t know Gareth you should make it a point to get to know him.  He originally hails from South Africa but now resides in the United States with his family.

Gareth is a frequent presenter in the… Read more

In a galaxy far, far, far away a developer of a third party application somewhere in the Hoth system had to implement cell level encryption for sensitive data.  Their weapon of choice was to do this utilizing C# code within SQL Common Language Runtime (CLR).  Though the galaxy is full… Read more

The February MVP nomination goes to Melody Zacharias (B|T).

Melody hails from our neighboring country to the north, beautiful Canada. While we all joke Melody about her quick and frequent apologies (Sorri), she definitely has nothing to apologize for when it comes to her dedication to… Read more

In case you missed it, back in November I blogged about the importance of nominating individuals within the SQL Server community for the prized Microsoft MVP award. I vowed, then,  each month to nominate one deserving individual.  This is the first of 12 nominations that I’ll be blogging about.  I… Read more