Throughout December, SQLServerCentral and Simple-Talk hosted the second annual Tribal Awards.  With these awards, the SQL community choose members who they felt deserved recognition by opening up both nominations and voting to the public. We’re very pleased to be able to announce the winners for each category in the video below. The winners were decided by sheer number of votes, some won by a landslide and others by the smallest of margins. We’d like to thank the 839 (more than last year!) voters who got involved to make the Tribal Awards something special, and congratulations to our victors!

To make the announcement something special, we had various members of the SQL community record themselves announcing a winner for each category, you can watch the video below. It’s the community that makes these awards special, so it made sense to try and get the community involved in the presentations. 

Thank you to everyone who helped out by making an announcement video: Jason Strate, Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Mickey Steuwe, Tim Ford, Donald Wert, Jonathan Allen, Tony Davis, Andrew Clarke, Brent Ozar, and Simon Galbraith. We'll post the winners and runners up in the discussion section for those who want to see the winners but skip the video.

Congratulations to all the winners, finalists, and nominees, and thank you to anyone who voted, or nominated someone for an award.