Welcome back to another weekly edition of the MSDN and TechNet Forum Top Contributors blog. Below, we pull out some of the leader boards from the forums, and drill deeper into who is topping the charts.

Top Forum Answerers

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

Last 30 days
	Dave Patrick	162
	Tony_Tao	130
	Jason Sandys	120
	jrv	120
	Erland Sommarskog	101

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

	Tony_Tao
	Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Dec 31, 2015

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

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

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.

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

Last 30 days
	Erland Sommarskog	101
	Olaf Helper	95
	Magnus (MM8)	81
	Dave Patrick	78
	Hilary Cotter	78

Let's also take a closer look at these high scorers...

	Erland Sommarskog (bio as above!)

	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.

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

	Dave Patrick (bio as above!)

	Hilary Cotter
	Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since Mar 5, 2008 Contact

This week, TechNet beats MSDN by 200 answers!

Most Frequent Moderators

Now let's look at the most recent and active moderators in the TechNet forums.

	Kate Li
	Ed Crowley
	Mike Jacquet
	Ty Glander
	Dan Rediske
	Darren Gosbell
	Bill_Stewart
	Rod Gill

Here's some more about the top most recent moderator...

	Kate Li
	Affiliations Microsoft Contingent Staff Member Since Aug 2, 2013

Next, here's the most recent moderators in the MSDN forums.

	Kareninstructor
	IoTGirl
	litdev
	Dan Rediske
	Darren Gosbell
	Rod Gill
	Mark Boulter (Xbox)
	Jingyang Li

And as before, some more info on the most recent of those moderators...

Kareninstructor

Affiliations MVP, Microsoft Community Contributor Member Since Oct 1, 2008 Contact Biography Develop with VS2013/VS2015, C#. Moderator under VB.NET, C# and Windows Forms Data Controls and Databinding forums and moderator at vbforums entire site. Currently our company is developing in C#, Entity Framework, SQL-Server and Web-API. Stack over flow profile under Karen Payne. Site moderator for VB Forums.

Thank you all for your hard work and diligence that keeps TechNet and MSDN a safe and clean place to work and learn! Also, thank you for supporting us, reading this, contributing to the forums, and commenting on blogs. See you next week!

Pete Laker, Azure MVP