Well, we're back from vacation finally (only for 10 days and then off to India and Thailand for 3 weeks… phew) and I've got a bunch of blogs posts to catch up on. First up – I did an interview with TechNet Radio in mid-December where I talked about database corruption and things to do to recover from it – similar to the conference sessions I've done but a little higher level.
The links for the interview are:
Enjoy!
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