Escaping from a runaway Logon trigger
Most people know that logon triggers can be dangerous if you aren’t careful. And if you didn’t know, well, logon...
2014-05-27 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Blog Posts
Get User In Reporting Services-Question of the Day
Get User In Reporting Services is my newest question to be published at SQLServerCentral.com as a “Question of the Day”....
2014-05-27
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How Much Value Would a SQLSaturday Certificate of Completion Have?
Note: Posted May 27, 2014, additions posted May 28, 2014 further down.
I think it’s been discussed a time or two,...
2014-05-27
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NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 3 (Twitter)
This is the third blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL.
If you are interested,...
2014-05-27
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SQL Server 2014 Launch Party Mississauga Ontario (Toronto) June 21, 2014
This event promises to be a highlight of the Canadian SQL Server calendar year.
The presenters are all 'first class'.
All...
2014-05-27
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Webcast Follow-Up: 5 SQL Server Indexing Myths
Similar to yesterday’s post, I have a follow-up for another Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s session that I delivered last month....
2014-05-27
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Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Finding My MDF Files
I wrote a PowerShell script recently to actually accomplish a task I that I needed. What’s more, this was the...
2014-05-26
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Database Backup Encryption with SQL Server 2014
A brand new & long awaited feature “Backup Encryption” along with SQL Server 2014. Microsoft reveled this upcoming feature in PASS...
2014-05-26 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Dealing with SQL Server LOCK resource errors.
I was recently doing some testing that required a fairly large table. I created the test table, and set it...
2014-05-26
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How Database Mail works in SQL Server ?
Database Mail is email feature in SQL Server from SQL Server 2005 onwards. This feature used for mailing alerts, notification,...
2014-05-26
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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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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
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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...
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