Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Most Important Maintenance Task…

We had a customer lose their entire database this week. The server failed in some manner and they tried to recover the database from the disks, but they could not bring the database online. They engaged our group and we tried everything we could to no avail. Until now, the most data loss I had…

Session News

It’s after 11 PM, I’m sitting in my hotel room, and this is pretty much the expression I’ve had all afternoon: See, emails about PASS Summit sessions went out this afternoon and I was thrilled to learn that two sessions I submitted have been accepted. Woohoo!! I am very honored and want to thank the…

In honor of Steve

Yesterday, Wednesday June 8th, 2011 marked the 1000th consecutive day of running for Steve Jones ( blog | @way0utwest ).  The SQL Community and supporting friends did an amazing job of trying to run 1000 miles yesterday as a tribute to Steve.  The final total was 454 and RedGate is donating that amount of money…

Details details details

Me: Hey there. You: Hey! Me: How was your day? You: Pretty good, how about yours? Me: Oh, it was interesting.  Grab a beer, let me tell you about it… So, it started out with a call from a customer because they had received the error: Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data…