Let’s Talk About Joins
T-SQL Tuesday #37 This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the month. It is hosted this month by Sebastian Meine (@sqlity)....
2012-12-11
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Jason Brimhall
Backup History
This is a quick rewrite of the script I just posted a few days ago. The script had a few...
2012-12-04 (first published: 2012-11-30)
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Backup History
This is a quick rewrite of the script I just posted a few days ago. The script had a few flaws if trying to run it on a SQL...
2012-11-30
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of...
2012-11-28
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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that...
2012-11-28
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012
Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey)
Neil Hambly (neil_hambly)
Bob Hovious
Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild)
Ed Watson...
2012-11-21
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Most Interesting People…
Here are the most interesting people I met at PASS Summit 2012 Mickey Stuewe (sqlmickey) Neil Hambly (neil_hambly) Bob Hovious Gail Shaw (sqlinthewild) Ed Watson (SQLGator) ...
2012-11-21
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Last Known Good CheckDB
Diligent DBAs like to check their databases for a little thing called corruption. Some of those DBAs are masterful at keeping records and logging that the database was checked...
2012-11-20
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Last Known Good CheckDB
Diligent DBAs like to check their databases for a little thing called corruption. Some of those DBAs are masterful at...
2012-11-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #36 SQL Community
Community – What is it?
Community is something that is improperly defined with words alone. Community is best defined through first person...
2012-11-13
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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