A new neat feature in SQL Server 2012 is THROW
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How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server? (Republished)
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Planning the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments for SQL Server part 1 (Republished)
When asked about how to plan the ideal dev, test, staging and production SQL Server environments it’s easy to get...
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How to synchronize the data from the Production environment to Development, Testing and Staging Environments for SQL Server?
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2012-05-23
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Planning the Development, Testing, Staging, and Production Environments for SQL Server part 1.
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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