2012 in review !
Year 2012 was super special for me in many ways. Made lot of new friends, Attended SQLPASS Summit 2012 and had...
2012-12-31
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Next Gen File System ReFS(Resilient File System) and SQLServer !
“ReFS”, this term was absolutely new to me when I was reading this white paper from Microsoft ‘Storage Windows Server...
2012-12-13
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Plan cache bloat by SQLAgent (Prior to SQL2008) !
Recently I was checking the plan cache utilization with the help of the below query which I normally use for...
2012-12-05 (first published: 2012-11-29)
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PASS Summit 2012 News – Check- in Experience!
Registration and Check in for PASS Summit 2012 was opened yesterday (Nov 4th), and I decided to utilize this opportunity...
2012-11-05
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PASS Summit 2012 Countdown Begins !!!
All roads lead to Seattle!
If you are a SQLServer professional, then you don’t want to miss this event.
Over 190 technical...
2012-10-23
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Tale of detaching a database which was enabled for replication!
In development environments I prefer to use ‘detach’ database option to move around databases. It’s simple, fast and easy.
Almost all...
2012-10-04
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Backing up the “log” of a database which is in Simple recovery model ! – Watch out for this!
In theory we cannot backup the log of a database which is in Simple recovery model, however there is a...
2012-10-01
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Cannot assign a default value to a local variable !
You will hit this error Cannot assign a default value to a local variable in case you are running SQL 2005/below,and you try...
2012-09-27
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Max Text Replication Size – When you might have to care about this number !
One of the advanced Server level options for SQL Server is Max Text Replication Size and this is really not a common...
2012-09-24 (first published: 2012-09-18)
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You don’t want to miss this out,Serious SQLServer training – 24 Hours of PASS event !
Back to back quality SQLServer sessions! Yes, you heard it right and that’s what 24 Hours of PASS is all...
2012-09-13
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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