Kevin Kline dropped me an email earlier this week asking me if I had seen or heard Jim Gaffigan’s musings on bacon. Apparently it has been available for quite some time, but I am only getting around to hearing it now. If you have not heard it before then take a few minutes to watch … Read more
I received an invite to Google wave a while back. I used it sparingly but always kept a tab open in FireFox to see if anything was going to “happen”. In short, I just didn’t get it. And I probably still don’t. I think the first problem with Wave is that only a few people … Read more
Less than 24 hours after posting a list of things I am thankful for, where I expressed Thanks for not having to restore master, I found myself awake at 3AM in order to restore master after we had a server lose its data drive. Before I got started I decided to check on the definition … Read more
While Playing around with the UCP inside of SQL 2008 R2 I found some videos to help you get started. The November CTP has six videos listed but only five of the links are currently working. Here is the splash screen you will see to help you get started: The link to “Enroll instances…” does … Read more
I set aside some time today to install the latest SQL 2008 R2 CTP. You can download the CTP yourself by clicking on this link. I have a handful of test servers that I can use to install the CTP onto, and the idea was to do an in-place upgrade on an existing SQL 2008 … Read more
Last month I went to visit some friends in Montreal. It just so happened to be the weekend right before the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada. While there we happened to meet some new people, which is always nice while traveling. During the discussions with our new friends we came about the topic of Thanksgiving, how … Read more
