Acadiana SQL Server User Group - Introduction to SQL Server Security Principals and Permissions
Great crowd last night and a great job by organizers Glenda Gable and Jill Joubert for the very first meeting...
2014-02-26
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Will Assaf
February '14 Acadiana SQL Server User Group
I am honored to be the very first presenter of the new PASS chapter in Lafayette, Louisiana this Tuesday, presenting...
2014-02-23
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February '14 Data Architecture Virtual Chapter Meeting
I will be speaking and whiteboarding for Data Architecture Virtual Chapter meeting on February 27, 2014 on the fitting topic...
2014-02-23
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Actual Emails: More Grief for GUIDs
Wrote this email exchange with some developer colleagues about to embark on performance tuning.
Subject: bag o' tricks from DMV talk
From: A. Developer
Hey...
2014-02-12 (first published: 2014-02-05)
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It May Be Necessary Re-enable Service Broker After Baremetal Restore
After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...
2014-01-30
1,133 reads
Start/Stop Group of Azure VM's
If you've already configured your local machine's PowerShell environment to interact with your Azure subscription (see here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/), then you can...
2014-01-30 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Easy Backup History Review Script
I often use these scripts to check on the backups of all databases in an unfamiliar SQL Server instance, regardless...
2014-01-22
546 reads
Not Dead Yet - Text and NText in SQL 2014
I was recently approached by a client who was running SQL Server 2008 with some databases in SQL 2000 compatibility...
2014-01-15
1,141 reads
Don't Hitch Your Wagon To MS Access
I know this might seem like an odd topic on a SQL Server blog, but it's a common and critical...
2014-01-07
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Case-Sensitive Updates in a Case-Insensitive World
Assuming you're in a case-insensitive ("CI" in the collation name) column, this UPDATE statement:
UPDATE tablefoo
set foo = 'Z'
where foo = 'z'
will just...
2013-12-20 (first published: 2013-12-16)
1,801 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...
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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