2018-02-07
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – February 2018 – Work with security
This month let’s create some security!
Create logins: GUI 5 pts/Script 5 pts
Create a SQL login and a Windows authenticated login....
2018-02-05
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The difference between blogging about something you know, and something you are learning (Love blogging! Live!)
Close but you need to blog about learning while blogging about the difference of blogging when you are learning something...
2018-01-31
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How To: Install SQL Server on an Azure VM
Last month I demonstrated creating an Azure VM with SQL installed using one of the default templates. While this is...
2018-01-29
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What’s dbo?
Don’t you hate it how certain words (well, acronyms in this case) get reused to mean multiple things? dbo seems...
2018-01-29 (first published: 2018-01-22)
1,973 reads
Who should own the database?
TL;DR; SA, or if you are really paranoid then you can create a disabled SQL login with minimal permissions and...
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-15)
2,700 reads
Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the...
2018-01-24
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How to read a technical blog
There are thousands, tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of blogs out there on all sorts of topics. If...
2018-01-17
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Fun with sp_rename
Currently the only way to rename objects in SQL Server is to use sp_rename. Although that may be changing in...
2018-01-11
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2018-01-10
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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...
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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