If you’ve been around SQL for any length of time it’s hard not to have heard of Brad McGehee, the blogger DBA behind Aloha DBA. Brad ran SQL-Server-Performance.com for many years and now works for Red Gate, spending a lot more time on the road than I’d want to going to events and user group meetings.
He’s been a fairly consistent blogger, and lately he’s come to terms with maintenance plans, realizing that maybe they aren’t entirely evil after all. Seriously, he has some good stuff, usually grounded in things that happen to him or that he observes first hand.