T-SQL Tuesday #47: Your Best SQL Server SWAG
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Kendal Van Dyke is asking for Your Best SQL Server SWAG....
2013-10-08
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Blog Posts
Can You Dig It? – Find All Plans for a Database
She Can Dig It!
With today’s SQL Server instances, there easily be anywhere from a dozen to a hundred databases on...
2013-10-07
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Cumulative Update – 13 for SQL Server 2008 SP3 Is Now Available !
The 13th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 is now available. Cumulative Update 13 contains all...
2013-10-07
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #52
Monday morning and it’s time for weekly round-up. If you follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet...
2013-10-07
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My Busy Weekend
This weekend is the fall camporee for my middle son’s Boy Scout troop. He’s one of the senior scouts in...
2013-10-07
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Renewed As MVP for 2013
Last Tuesday I received the email confirming that I will be an MVP for another year. Nice news to get....
2013-10-07
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Transaction Log Management
I have had the distinct pleasure of being asked to review a book by RedGate. The book is by a friend and respected community member Gail Shaw (blog |...
2013-10-07
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Transaction Log Management
I have had the distinct pleasure of being asked to review a book by RedGate. The book is by a...
2013-10-07
1,653 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #47: Your Best SQL Server SWAG
The Stuff We All Get!
Fall has arrived which means it's conference season: Connections is happening this week, the PASS Summit...
2013-10-07 (first published: 2013-10-03)
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Wrapping Up The 2013 PASS Election-Part 3
Today I’ll continue with my notes and thoughts on the 2013 election process and a good place to start is...
2013-10-06
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Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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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