Making Sense of PCIe SSD Use with SQL Server
When Fusion IO burst onto the scene in 2007, offering a PCIe card that was said to be able to...
2015-03-16 (first published: 2015-03-10)
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Blog Posts
Review of Minion Reindex
Back in October 2014 Midnight SQL released v1.0 of Minion Reindex, a free, open source index maintenance solution. I’m all...
2015-03-16
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Statistics on UNIQUEIDENTIFIER columns
During the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen/Denmark, Brent Ozar (Blog, Twitter) and I had a very interesting conversation regarding Statistics on...
2015-03-16
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The Demo Setup–Attaching Databases with Powershell
I found another use for Powershell, one actually suggested by someone else: attaching specific SQL Server databases.
TL;DR I have a...
2015-03-16
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There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.
Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly...
2015-03-16
669 reads
Date Range Challenge in sql
Hi Folks,
When you work in a offshore - onsite setup in IT industry and if you are fortunate 🙂 to be a...
2015-03-15
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Data Size – LEN() vs DATALENGTH() - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutes No. It isn’t just the way you use your data that...
The post Data Size – LEN() vs...
2015-03-13 (first published: 2015-03-04)
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Friend of Redgate 2015
Today I am excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Friends of Redgate program for 2015. The...
2015-03-13
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Friend of Redgate 2015
Today I am excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Friends of Redgate program for 2015. The program targets influential people in their respective technical communities...
2015-03-13
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How to Replace Multiple Strings in a File using PowerShell
Replace the Data Source and Initial Catalog values of WebConfig.XML
Content of XML file
<Configuration ConfiguredType=”Property” Path=”\Package.Connections[ConnStaging].Properties[ConnectionString]” ValueType=”String”>
<ConfiguredValue>Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Stage;Integrated Security=SSPI; Connection Timeout = 10</ConfiguredValue>
</Configuration>
PARAM(
[String]$DatabaseName='DCTarget',
[String]$XML='c:\webconfig.XML',
[String]$DatabaseServer='DataCenterDB01')[string]$db...
2015-03-13
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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...
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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