The 2011 Volvo S60. “Get Naughty” Event

Yesterday I went to the “Get Naughty” event and test drove the 2011 Volvo S60. A great car overall, with a nice interior, enough horsepower and great looks. Not as big as the S80 and a bit expensive with options (north of 40K loaded). I will wait for the R-Design to arrive and consider the European Delivery Program. I have owned 4 Volvo’s so far and they were all great, including the latest ’10 Volvo XC90 R-Design. The BMW 328i and Audi A4 were also available for a test drive. I can say that the interior of the BMW is awesome, but the engine did not deliver. The Audi looked outdated and I did not have fun with its Turbo lag. But again, I am biased as I tend to chose Volvo anyways.

Took some pictures while at the event:

The wife testing the “Pedestrian Detection” option.

Microsoft Says there is nothing wrong with SQL Server 2008 R2

Over 3 weeks ago we solved the issue we were having with one  particular cluster node running SQL Server 2008 R2. We have been going back and forth with Microsoft to obtain an explanation on why the erratic behavior of the RDBMS engine.

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