A Comprehensive Manual to Manage SQL Server Database
SQL Server is a uniquely designed Relational Database Management System developed by Microsoft. Its basic functionalities include storing, manipulating and...
2015-03-09
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Blog Posts
Solving a slow running query issue with UNION
That’s right! I will solve a performance issue by adding a UNION into the query. Interested? Read on!
I recently encountered...
2015-03-09 (first published: 2015-02-25)
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SQL Saturday Oklahoma City, OK: 422 August 29th, 2015!
We're proud to bring back the OKC SQL Saturday for the 5th year in a row! We have 3 precons...
2015-03-09
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Transaction Logging in In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)
In today’s blog posting I want to talk in more detail about how In-Memory OLTP logs transaction log records into...
2015-03-09
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Upcoming Events Where We Can Chat
I get around quite a bit.
Next week I’ll be visiting three cities in Germany talking to user groups in Frankfurt,...
2015-03-09
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Why You Shouldn’t Skip the Infrastructure/Security Architecture Review
It’s not usual for development projects to undergo an architecture review, but too many times these reviews consist only of...
2015-03-09
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Data Compression– a unique feature of SQL Server TIP #91
A part from performance many times we faced challenges related to space of our database. Sometimes our database is actually...
2015-03-08
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SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
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In-Memory OLTP & Deadlocking – my SQLBits sessions
After speaking at the SQLRally conference in Copenhagen earlier this week, my next stop was at the SQLBits conference in...
2015-03-07
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DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”
Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
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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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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