Terminate User processes in SQL Server
This article illustrates how to create a simple procedure to kill many sessions at the same time, kill a range of sessions and kill all of the sessions connecting to a database.
2008-09-10
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Articles
Creating a Matrix Report - SQL School Video
In this video, you will learn how to use Reporting Services to build a report that contains a matrix of data.
2008-09-09
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2008-09-09
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Legal Security
As database professionals, we know that we are responsible for the security and integrity of the data in our systems. But Steve Jones wonders if you know what legal responsibilities you might have.
2008-09-09
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Legal Security
As database professionals, we know that we are responsible for the security and integrity of the data in our systems. But Steve Jones wonders if you know what legal responsibilities you might have.
2008-09-09
77 reads
Legal Security
As database professionals, we know that we are responsible for the security and integrity of the data in our systems. But Steve Jones wonders if you know what legal responsibilities you might have.
2008-09-09
68 reads
SQL Server 2008 Capture DML Changes Using Change Data Capture
In this article Ashish continues to explore the Change Data Capture feature in SQL Server 2008. This article demonstrates how to track DML changes
2008-09-09
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What is SQL Server
This refresher on SQL Server examines when to use a database as well when not to, along with some of the key terms used with SQL Server.
2008-09-09
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Use Operations Manager to Monitor Your SQL Agent Jobs
Monitoring your SQL Server Agent jobs is important to ensuring that all of the automation you have created on your server is working correctly. Thomas LaRock brings us another article on Operations Manager and its integration with SQL Server.
2008-09-08
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Database Mirroring Automating Failover for Multiple Databases
Database Mirroring was released with SQL Server 2005 and is becoming a popular choice for a failover solution. One of the big issues with Database Mirroring is that the failover is tied to one database, so if there is a database failure the mirrored server takes over for this one database, but all other databases remain functional on the primary server.
2008-09-08
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
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Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
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What Scanning Hundreds of SQL Servers Taught Me About the Defaults We All Forget
I have been reading SQLServerCentral for about 15 years and somehow never posted. This...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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25 Years Later: What SQLServerCentral Meant to Me
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Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers