SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Available to Download
At the PASS Summit keynote today Quentin Clark announced that SQL Server CTP2 (which is public and the last public review) and is available right now to download here....
2013-10-16
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Blog Posts
SQL Server MVP for the 2nd time in row!
I’m honored to be recognized as SQL Server MVP for the 2nd time in row and thank you Microsoft to...
2013-10-16
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Summit 2013 – Part the First
While not technically the first day of Summit since the official start is yet to come, here are my thoughts on Sunday and Monday of PASS Summit 2013. For...
2013-10-16
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Summit 2013 – Part the First
While not technically the first day of Summit since the official start is yet to come, here are my thoughts...
2013-10-16
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TempDB Contention 2.1.%
Problem: When you are performing many DML operations and makes tempdb contesnion on it, You may get wait_resource of 2.1.103...
2013-10-16
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Attending the SQL PASS Summit?
Are you attending the SQL PASS Summit conference in Charlotte, NC this week? If so, let’s meet up! If not,...
2013-10-15
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DMV-15 : Pending I/O requests……..sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests
sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188762.aspx
Returns a row for each pending I/O request in SQL...
2013-10-15
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October 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s not the first Monday of October, instead it’s the second Tuesday (oops, had Wednesday in here originally). As we...
2013-10-15
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PASS SQL SUMMIT 2013 - Day 1 - Highlights, Questions & Answers
Today, October 15, 2013: PASS SUMMIT DAY1
It’s October, and it’s PASS SQL Summit time, 2013! PASS Summit is the world's largest,...
2013-10-15
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PASS SQL Summit 2013 - Highlights Q&A - First Timer's Advice from the Experts
So, is this your first time attending PASS Summit? Confused, shy, overwhelmed, and don’t know what to do first? Or...
2013-10-15
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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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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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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