MSDN Blogs: Forum Top Contributors! October Week 3

Welcome back to another snapshot of forum activity in the last week, summing up the total number of answers in the last week, on TechNet and MSDN forums.

First let’s look who’s helping most in the TechNet forums.

Last 30 days
	Dave Patrick	189
	jrv	131
	Jason Sandys	123
	Erland Sommarskog	110
	Carl Fan	106

Let’s take a closer look at those five forum heroes…

	Dave Patrick
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since May 18, 2009 Biography [Microsoft MVP] Windows

	jrv
	Affiliations Microsoft Partner Website tech-comments.blo… Member Since Apr 9, 2005

	Jason Sandys
	I work at … Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website blog.configmgrftw… Member Since Jan 10, 2009 Contact Biography …

Erland Sommarskog

Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website sommarskog.se Member Since Jun 10, 2007 Biography I was originally awarded MVP for SQL Server by Microsoft in April 2001, and I am very happy to have retained the award through the years. Here in the forums, I love to help people to use SQL Server. Professionally, I am a self-employed consultant providing expert services for SQL Server development.

	Carl Fan
	Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Mar 10, 2016

Now let’s look at who’s helping most in the MSDN forums.

Last 30 days
	Erland Sommarskog	110
	Olaf Helper	97
	Dave Patrick	94
	Magnus (MM8)	92
	Lisa Chen1226	72

Let’s also take a closer look at these five forum heroes…

Erland Sommarskog

Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website sommarskog.se Member Since Jun 10, 2007 Biography I was originally awarded MVP for SQL Server by Microsoft in April 2001, and I am very happy to have retained the award through the years. Here in the forums, I love to help people to use SQL Server. Professionally, I am a self-employed consultant providing expert services for SQL Server development.

	Olaf Helper
	I work at reifencom GmbH Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Website olafhelper.over-b… Member Since Aug 9, 2009 Contact   Biography DBA and Developer for Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence Designer. ——— DBA und Entwickler für Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence Designer.

	Dave Patrick
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since May 18, 2009 Biography [Microsoft MVP] Windows

	Magnus (MM8)
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Partner, Microsoft Community Contributor Website blog.magnusmontin… Member Since Mar 10, 2009

	Lisa Chen1226
	Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Jul 31, 2014

So a slight change in names this week, but some regular high achievers!

TechNet still out performing MSDN for answers!

More varied analysis coming soon. Plus a closer look at our heroes.

Thanks for reading!

Peter Laker, Azure MVP