TSQL Tuesday Misconceptions in SQL Server
I haven’t written a post for a TSQL Tuesday for a little while and I know that I’m late getting...
2010-10-12
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Gethyn Ellis
Instant File Initialization – Is it Turned On?
I have posted a short note on instant file initialization previously, that post can be found here. The crux of...
2010-09-21
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Policy Based Management - Disable Autoclose
I posted recently about my run-in with autoclose and my online friend Jorge Segarra (Blog|@SQLCHICKEN) left a great comment on...
2010-09-15
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Mastering PowerShell – Free EBook
Someone who I follow on twitter posted a tweet recently with a link to a free eBook on PowerShell. I...
2010-09-10
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SQL Server - Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
This a short post looking at the Dedicated Administrator Connection or DAC for short. In extreme circumstances, when there is...
2010-09-09
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Auto Close – SQL Server
I ran into an issue recently where I had a third party supplied database set to auto close. I couldn't...
2010-09-07
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Incremental Load - TSQL
For my first technical post in a short while I thought I would look at something I have worked on...
2010-08-23
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Summer Update
I haven’t posted on my SQL Server blog for a few weeks, I missed the August T-SQL Tuesday which I’m...
2010-08-14
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The week that was Friday 23 July 2010
Its been a busy week this week. From troubleshooting several production issues to writing some incremental load SSIS scripts, the...
2010-07-23
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Raining Tuesday – Cricket Cancelled – Replication Stinks - SQL BITS VOTE NOW!
Well this was going to be replication post, but I have read it, re-written it, read it, re-written and it...
2010-07-20
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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