Well, I have managed to make it through one full week as an MVP without upsetting anyone. Well, not anyone inside the MVP program at least. And I decided that it was about time to expose the MVP’s for what they really are: people. Turns out that MVP’s have questions, just like the rest of … Read more
Every now and then I see requests come to our team that say “hey, buddy, when was the last time that database was restored?” My first thought has been, historically, “how the hell am I supposed to know that?” After all, the management tools given to us (EM, SSMS) never list a “last restore date” … Read more
There is an upcoming event being hosted by SSWUG on Friday, April 17th. For more details you can click here or go to: https://www.vconferenceonline.com/shows/spring09/sql/s09event.asp And this is also a reminder that the SSWUG vConference is going to take place from April 22nd to the 24th. Yours truly will be presenting on the following topics: SQL … Read more
Normally I do not spend any time on this blog talking about all the email scams that get sent my way, no matter how interesting they may appear. But I wanted to mention one email that came my way yesterday. It was trapped by our corporate spam filter, and I did not see it until … Read more
In the past few weeks I have seen a plethora of posts and articles about virtualization. There was a great article in the latest issue of SQL Server Magazine that had a handful of quotes from Brent. They even had his photo in there. Maybe one day I could be as lucky… Anyway, in all … Read more
Just when I thought we had put him away for good, Egghead is back. After we caught him previously violating our servers in ways never thought possible, he disappeared for a few weeks, only to resurface this morning. In what I surely thought was to be an April Fool’s Day joke there was an email … Read more
