SQLSaturday #308 Houston, TX Saturday May 10th
This will be the second SQLSaturday in Houston I have spoken at and I am excited about talking Execution Plans...
2014-05-07
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Blog Posts
What’s Happening at the PASS Business Analytics Conference?
Watch below for live updates during the conference Stay tuned and you’ll find out what’s going on during this week...
2014-05-07
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Datatypes In Your Mind–Question Of The Day
My latest question Datatypes In Your Mind is live today and it’s generated quite the discussion. I wrote here about...
2014-05-06
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Filetable–Moving files programmatically
I’ve been playing with Filetable and I was asked an interesting question. Can I move files to a folder programmatically?
It’s...
2014-05-06
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Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness
One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...
2014-05-06 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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VMworld 2014 Session Voting Is Open!
I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. VMware has opened up the public voting for the VMworld 2014...
2014-05-06
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Applied SQL: Orphan a user, fix orphaned users (sp_FixOrphanedUsers)
Ever heard of orphaned users? It’s a database user account, disconnected from its associated login. You typically get this when...
2014-05-05
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Cumulative Update – 1 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Rollback by Microsoft !
The 1st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM was released by Microsoft.
But due to issues in setup Microsoft...
2014-05-05
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Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Is Now Available !
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the...
2014-05-05
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Enable CLR with Powershell
I had an email last night from someone who attended my PowerShell Box of Tricks session at SQL Saturday Exeter
He...
2014-05-05
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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