A Page-Splitting Headache - Page Split Mini-Series
Page splits are a normal occurring process in an OLTP system. However, too many page splits can cause performance issues...
2014-09-03 (first published: 2013-07-08)
9,683 reads
Robert Pearl
Get SQL Server Info - Quick Tip & Script
There
are a number of ways to collect basic information about SQL Server, its
version, edition and other top-level properties. What is...
2014-07-28 (first published: 2014-07-17)
11,337 reads
Congratulations MVPs - Team USA (the other world cup)
While the World
Cup was still going on, and the folks in the USA had a real reason to root
for the...
2014-07-02
1,191 reads
SQLSaturday #294 DBA 4 Dummies - post event commentary...
Had an awesome time at #SQLSat294 in Philly (MS HQ in Malvern, PA to be exact). Was great seeing the...
2014-06-10
1,545 reads
Happy Memorial Day - Freedom is Never Free!
Well, as all folks in the United States know, this weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, Monday May 26, 2014. While...
2014-05-23
1,477 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #54 - Interviews and Hiring
Well, it's that time again! It's TSQL Tuesday #54, and its about Interviews and hiring. I'm writing this free style...
2014-05-16 (first published: 2014-05-13)
3,770 reads
Summer SQL Server & Database Events In and Around NY
Summer SQL Server & Database Events In and Around NY-
Happy May everyone!
Hope those April showers will bring us May flowers! ...
2014-05-01
2,354 reads
DBAs should be on CLOUD 9 - IT Trends
For all the talk and initial fear that the DBA is going the way of the Dodo (pronounced doh-doh) (an...
2014-03-18
2,098 reads
Configuring Native Mode SSRS on local host
OK, so you successfully installed SQL Server and you selected to deploy SQL Server Reporting Services using the default installation...
2014-03-06
17,238 reads
Tonight: NYC Metro User Group Presents Kimberly L. Tripp & Jonathan Kehayias
Tonight: The NYC Metro User Group Presents Kimberly L. Tripp (blog) and Jonathan Kehayias (blog)!
Let's welcome them to NYC! Now at...
2014-02-25
1,213 reads
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