Using PowerShell to Build your Azure VM Environment
In a previous post I wrote about Using a Hyper-V VHD in an Azure VM. Today I’d like to show...
2014-06-23
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Blog Posts
Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday 2014: SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Databases
Thanks for joining us at the first annual Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday!
Here is my presentation for the 1:15 presentation in...
2014-06-21
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 31 (“Memory Pressure and Row Group Sizes”)
Continuation from the previous 30 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This blog post is focusing on one of the most important real...
2014-06-21
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Microsoft Azure Data Services
Azure Data Services
Microsoft’s Azure data services provides you with a method to enhance your enterprise architecture and business intelligence options. ...
2014-06-21
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Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it may be your problem.
Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 30 (“Bulk Load API Magic Number”)
Continuation from the previous 29 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
It has been a long time (almost a year) since Microsoft revealed...
2014-06-20
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Friday Followup For June 20, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-06-20
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Poecilonym Madness-Question of the Day
Poecilonym Madness! is my latest question that tests your knowledge of creating/dropping tables, views, and synonyms. Here’s the fun part...
2014-06-20
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Reblog: June 13 to June 19
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-06-20
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 19
Below is the chart Kendal Van Dyke maintains for us in Orlando showing year over year registration counts. Don’t I...
2014-06-19
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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...
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