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Make sure your SQL Server enterprise edition is up to date

A month or so ago we started seeing crashes on the SQL Server associated with one of our dogfood TFS servers.  The crashes ultimately resulted in us having to restore the database from backup.  It was a significant work disturbance and an important thing to avoid. We diagnosed the problem in tandem with the SQL Server team and ...

Kicking myself

I kind of checked out of the blogosphere just before the holidays and haven’t resurfaced.  I feel bad about it.  I will say I had a good holiday.  I took a full 2 1/2 weeks off and did pretty much nothing but farm work.  It was a great vacation.  It’s the longest I’ve been away from work in a very ...