Learning about Multiple Tempdb Files
References and links to help you learn how to create multiple tempdb files.
2015-06-29
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Learning about the Cardinality Estimator
A few links to help you understand the Cardinality Estimator.
2015-06-29
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Learning SQL Server 2014
A list of technologies in SQL Server 2014 that you might want to learn more about.
2015-06-29
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Learning SQL Server 2012
A collection of technologies and links that will help you learn more about SQL Server 2012.
2015-06-25
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2015-06-23
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A Call for Questions
Our Question of the day is very popular, but we're looking for more complex questions
2014-09-08
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2014-08-21 (first published: 2014-08-19)
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Apology for today's article
We'd like to apologize to Gavin Draper who was plagiarized in an article published today.
2014-06-23
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Unwelcome posts on our forums
As you may have noticed, we have been suffering recently from increased spam posts on the forums. This is something we're currently working to resolve.
2014-06-20
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2014-05-27
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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
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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