The Cost of Function Use In A Where Clause
Discusses Index Selection impact when functions are wrapped around WHERE clause filtering columns
2008-02-28
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Articles
Featured Blog: iFTS Transparency – Viewing the words in the index
This next post on Full Text search from MVP Simon Sabin examines how you can examine the details of what your indexes contain.
2008-02-28
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Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
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Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Change Data Capture – Part 2
Part 2 of this article illustrates how to enable Change Data Capture on a database, on a table and how SQL Server tracks the data changes of the CDC enabled table.
2008-02-28
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The Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Ch 7
This is the seventh article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the tactical layer of the Data Governance Framework.
2008-02-28
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Coping with No Column Names in the SSIS OLEDB Data Source Editor
Longtime author Paul Ibison brings us a short look at a common problem in Integration Services: your source has no column names.
2008-02-27
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New Isolation Levels Available in SQL Server 2005
One of the more mysterious features of SQL Server is isolation levels. Whenever a statement is executed, or a data modification is made, it runs under the influence of an isolation level. Traditionally, SQL Server has supported four isolation levels. In SQL Server 2005, two new isolation levels are introduced.
2008-02-27 (first published: 2007-03-05)
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SQL Server 2008 - Table Valued Parameters
In this screencast, we look at Table Valued Parameters from both the server side and client side perspectives.
2008-02-27
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Writing Outer Joins in T-SQL
Occasionally someone will ask for my help with a query and say that both a right outer join and a left outer join was tried, and still the expected results were not achieved. That made me realize that some developers do not completely understand outer joins and that an article explaining how to use them might help.
2008-02-27
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Blogs
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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