UserVoice

One of the many wonderful things that came out of the MVP Summit for me last week was UserVoice. Both readers of my blog may have noticed the red ‘Feedback’ tab on the left hand side of the page. This tab will lead you to a forum that I have configured with UserVoice. Last week … Read more

MVP Summit Recap

The 2010 MVP Summit took place last week on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. I arrived on Tuesday, barely making it out ahead of a snowstorm. I missed out on some sessions on Monday and Tuesday, having made my plans before any extra sessions were announced. When I got into town I couldn’t find any … Read more

SQL Prime Rib

We decided to host Christmas dinner for our families this year. There were to be about fifteen people coming over for dinner. Suzanne and I set the menu and we went with a standing rib roast as the main attraction. Early in the week Suzanne stopped at our local meat outlet and walked out with … Read more

Restoring SQL 2005 Master Using LiteSpeed

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