Lessons Learned from a Poor-performing VIEW
It is a “common knowledge” among SQL practitioners that VIEWs don’t perform well. Recently during an application’s development I put...
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)
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Blog Posts
Monitoring for Timeouts
The question came up at SQL Rally, “Can you use Extended Events to monitor for query timeouts?”
My immediate response was...
2015-03-20 (first published: 2015-03-12)
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Achievement Unlocked: 24 Hours of Pass Session Submitted
I have finally submitted a session for a speaking engagement. Those who know me know that this is a very...
2015-03-19
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Audit Schema Change Report
In a recent article on SSG, I discussed how to use Extended Events to function in a Profiler like fashion....
2015-03-19 (first published: 2015-03-11)
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Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?
Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?
MARCH 19, 2015
This week, Microsoft introduced an update to Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Preview. This update is good...
2015-03-19
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Azure SQLDatabase v12 Premium Editions and Available Cores
A couple of days ago, during the great SQL Unplugged live show, I have asked a couple of questions the...
2015-03-19
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Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you?
Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous DeploymentDo...
2015-03-19
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Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous...
2015-03-19
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Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous...
2015-03-19
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Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases
Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment Do you want to get your databases...
2015-03-19
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
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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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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