System RAM Comparison
Another link from Steve Jones, this page has a great breakdown of the different types of RAM.
2003-04-24
808 reads
Articles
White Paper - Select the Best Approach for Data Integration
This white paper was written by Alain Dumas, founder of Sunopis. Looks interesting. Looks like they sell a tool that does ETL, replication, data cleaning, and more. We haven't reviewed the product, just thought it was something that might be of interest to our readers
2003-04-22
1,023 reads
Getting Your Server Information
Do you use @@version? sp_server_info? What's the difference? Read on to see what each of these methods returns and which one you should be using.
2003-04-21
7,060 reads
Review of SQL 2000 Fast Answers
A monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks!
2003-04-18
18,239 reads
Upcoming Event - Microsoft TechEd 2003 in Dallas
TechEd will have 350 sessions designed to suit the needs of developers, architects, IT professionals, database, network and system administrators, messaging and security specialists. Andy is going, if you're planning to attend post a comment or send him email (awarren@sqlservercentral.com)!
2003-04-17
746 reads
AWE Adventures
Joseph recently had to upgrade a server from 4g to 8g of memory. Read how he did it and learn about some interesting aspects of AWE. For example, if you have 6.5g configured for use by SQL, how will task manager show used by sqlserver.exe?
2003-04-16
23,886 reads
Building Communities with Software
Steve Jones found this link that has some great thoughts on how software should be used to help build a community. Read this if you have time and post some comments. One thing in particular we liked (read the article!) were the comments about emailing responses. Your comments on this one will help us plan as we continue to try to build a better site/community.
2003-04-15
792 reads
What's In A Review?
Expanding on the issue of reviewing software for SQL Server, Steve Jones proposes some standards for reviews in this article. Please take a moment to read and comment on this proposal to better help SQL Server Central.com provide you with the information that you need.
2003-04-14
3,217 reads
The SQL Server Black Box
Have you ever had the problem where a user ran a query against your SQL Serer and crashed it or made the server unusable since the CPU was spiked at 100%? A SQL Server black box is the equivalent of a flight data record. The black box records all queries being passed to your SQL Server and other useful information like errors.
2003-04-11
16,845 reads
Transaction Processing Performance Council
We've all seen the numbers published about how well very db vendors do on the TPC tests - have you ever visited the site that sponsors the tests? Or looked to see what hardware and software configuration was used to achieve the score? Lots of good information on this site!
2003-04-10
825 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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