Continuous Delivery and the Development DBA
How to do database development with trunk based development and Continuous Delivery
2017-03-22
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Articles
Follow-up #1 on leading wildcard seeks
Aaron Bertrand shows how to implement simple triggers that maintain trigram-type tables used for better supporting wildcard searches.
2017-03-22
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Core Database Source Control Concepts
Sometimes, it isn't the technicalities or details of database source control that people find difficult, but the general concepts and workflow. In this article, taken from Robert Sheldon's book 'SQL Server Source Control Basics' , he takes a step back from the details to explain the whole purpose of database source control and the most important operations within source control such as versioning, branching and merging.
2017-03-21
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Backups in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
This time we explain how to recover an Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ASDW) from a disaster.
2017-03-20
3,642 reads
Using Power BI in a Hybrid Environment
Many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud computing such as lower capital expenditures and increased agility, while still maintaining data in on-premises data stores. This paper describes best practices for security, networking, and component architecture for building a hybrid business intelligence (BI) environment by using a combination of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises data sources.
2017-03-20
4,239 reads
Windowing Functions: Tell me when that changes
Windowing functions aren't just for analyzing numbers/dates. Using windows functions to analyze when a character field changes is a little know resource
2017-03-17 (first published: 2016-02-17)
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SQL Server Bulk Insert Row Terminator Issues
We often need to import data into SQL Server from a file. Sometimes unwanted end of line characters are part of the source file and these can create issues when importing the data. One of the ways to avoid this issue is to use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), but it doesn't always make sense to use SSIS for simple operations. Rahul Mehta explains that he uses BULK INSERT sometimes faces issues with Line Feeds and Carriage Returns. In this post, Rahul shows some examples and explains how to fix the issue.
2017-03-17
3,572 reads
Ding - The World’s Largest Mobile Top-up Network Streamlines QA with SQL Server Containers
In this case study, see how database containers can help improve a QA process.
2017-03-16
647 reads
Installing SQL Server vNext on an AWS EC2 RHEL Instance
The steps required to create an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance and install the latest SQL Server version on the EC2.
2017-03-16
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How to Find Queries Using an Index (and Queries Using Index Hints)
Sometimes you know a query is out there, but it’s hard to find the exact query. In this post, Kendra Little gives example code to find queries using a specific index, or using an index hint.
2017-03-16
5,858 reads
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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