My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
669 reads
Blog Posts
My Upcoming Speaking Engagements
March 4 – Charleston PASS, Charleston, SC
What Admins Absolutely Must Know About SQL Server Security
There are so many security tips out...
2015-02-26
963 reads
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,762 reads
Parsing SQL Saturday Data – Getting Titles from the XML document
I’m continuing on with my project to grab SQL Saturday data and automatically insert it into a SQL Server database....
2015-02-25
1,437 reads
PWDCOMPARE–a hidden function of SQL SERVER TIP #88
I the last tip TIP#88 we saw how to encrypt a password. Now in this tip I would like to...
2015-02-25
934 reads
Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/
as it happened I had a requirement to make use...
2015-02-25 (first published: 2015-02-15)
6,260 reads
Using sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions v6.0
It’s been a while since I posted an updated to usp_DBPermissions and usp_SrvPermissions. Sorry. I got lazy with my posting....
2015-02-25
1,291 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to change things dramatically. In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) is one...
2015-02-24
10 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In-Memory OLTP – a potential game changing technology
Every once in a while a technology comes out that has the potential to...
2015-02-24
614 reads
Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP – Detailed Notes
Here are my unedited chapter notes:
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Collation – current version requires BIN2 on character index columns. Best to do...
2015-02-24
5 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
Forums
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