SQLServer Log Shipping Work File ! What is this all about ?
A short and sweet post for a gorgeous morning -
Have you seen a file with extension .wrk in the log shipping copy folder...
2013-03-29
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CU3 for SQL2012 SP1 – Couple of interesting hotfixes.
Here comes CU 3 (Build 11.0.3349.0.) for SQLServer 2012 SP1. You can download the same from
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2812412
Similar to CU2 there...
2013-03-21
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Apply CU2 for SQL2012 SP1 – Fix for Windows Installer starting repeatedly and causing CPU spikes !
CU2 for SQLServer 2012 SP1 is one key update which you should review and deploy if found necessary. I have...
2013-03-19 (first published: 2013-03-15)
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Adding a Linked Server with ‘Oracle Provider for OLE DB’ as the provider – Proceed with caution !
Adding a linked server is an easy task which can be done at any point of time. I was under...
2013-03-13
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Get Database information in mail using PowerShell !
Would you love to get a weekly status report of all the databases hosted on your mission critical servers? ,Would...
2013-02-26
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Check the version of Windows Installer !
This post is a quick tip to find the version of Windows Installer installed on your box.
You might wonder why...
2013-02-09
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Quick alert on servers which are not compliant for policies set using PBM
Last month I wrote about leveraging policy based management for regular DBA compliance checks. You can read that post here.
Policy based management(PBM) is indeed...
2013-02-06
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Leverage Policy Based Management for regular Page Verify =Checksum compliance monitoring
Page Verify = Checksum is one option which I like all my servers to be compliant. By default all the new...
2013-01-17
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DBCC Memorystatus SQL2012 – A quick observation for node Process/System Counts
This post is not a detailed explanation of DBCC Memorystatus for SQL2012,but a quick observation I made recently for the...
2013-01-11
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SQLAgent Job related reports and out of box real time job monitoring tool !
Lets start New Year with a very simple yet useful topic.
I am a big fan of out of box reporting...
2013-01-08
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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