Using Extended Events Telemetry Session
You are probably wondering what this is, quite honestly I was wondering too. Well it is an extended events session...
2017-01-23
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Blog Posts
What Is Your Career Investment Portfolio?
Every year, financial advisors will recommend their clients to take a review of their investment portfolio and make necessary changes...
2017-01-23
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Columnstore Indexes – part 96 (“Nonclustered Columnstore Index Online Rebuild”)
Continuation from the previous 95 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on a...
2017-01-22
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CREATE DATABASE – I’ve not seen that before.
TweetG’day,
It’s been a while
I thought that I’d make a quick blog post about an incident that I encountered today...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,
Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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MVP 2016!!!
Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...
2017-01-22
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Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts. I’m posting a series of excerpts...
2017-01-22
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Adding Application Name to Invoke-SqlCmd2
In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...
2017-01-20
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Easy Database Space with dbatools
One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is...
2017-01-20 (first published: 2017-01-06)
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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