here's some more recent coders that I know of;
KLS
WildcardX
Bleh
Also, Cavedude is now in charge of the whole PEQ database project, and has pumped "new life" into it.
You might want to visit the PEQ forums and get some history there. Don't forget Sesmar Alaharnok and his
http://eqemu.sesmar.net/ site. this is probably the first place where database were public available for download (Cavedude's Installer and the EQ db.) I always said "EQ database is the grand-daddy of them all".
You can also see a lot of history in the EqEmu changelogs at
http://eqemulator.net/download.php