If you don't have a witness server and your principal server goes, how do you make your mirror server the principal and bring all your databases online?
2009-03-16
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Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
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Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
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Will we see a low-cost SQL Server knock-off at some point? Steve Jones thinks it could happen as the RDBMS becomes a commodity product.
2009-03-16
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Operations Manager has a number of reports to help you monitor the uptime of your applications, but reporting can be difficult to learn until you understand all the different options, the different parameters possible, and the way the Operations Manager health model is structured. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime'. then you can start your reports from any of the views in the Monitoring tab, and then add or remove objects to get the report you need.
2009-03-16
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Having employees leave your company is a reality of life. But how do you handle letting your IT workers go and protect your systems? Steve Jones isn't sure there is much you can do to prevent issues, but you can deal with them.
2009-03-15
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Having employees leave your company is a reality of life. But how do you handle letting your IT workers go and protect your systems? Steve Jones isn't sure there is much you can do to prevent issues, but you can deal with them.
2009-03-15
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Having employees leave your company is a reality of life. But how do you handle letting your IT workers go and protect your systems? Steve Jones isn't sure there is much you can do to prevent issues, but you can deal with them.
2009-03-15
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T-SQL calculations can get tricky at times, and since you often work with multiple rows, it's good to be exact in your data manipulation. New author Lynn Pettis brings us an article about calculating ages.
2009-03-13 (first published: 2008-06-30)
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Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a couple of times to Locks of Love . This past Saturday I participated in a hair collection drive led by 11 year-old Sarah Brotman: Midlands girl gets a haircut...
2009-03-13
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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