Instant File Initialization Security Risk
A while ago I blogged about instant file initialization. A colleague of mine pointed out that there is a small...
2012-04-16
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Blog Posts
PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my experience this year with the Scripting Games. This is the first year I've competed and...
2012-04-16 (first published: 2012-04-12)
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Script to analyse space usage by your Service Broker
I believe that service broker is one of the best features from SQL server 2005, well along with the xml...
2012-04-16
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SQL Saturday #111 Atlanta recap and links and stuff and things….
I particularly enjoy SQL Saturdays in Atlanta for a few reasons. It gives me an excellent excuse to come out...
2012-04-16
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SQL Saturday 136 – Wellington. Speakers review.
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On Saturday 16th April 2012, I attended SQL Saturday #136 in Wellington, New Zealand.
The day was run by Dave Curlewis [Blog...
2012-04-16
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SQLSaturday #151 Announced–Orlando!
Just got the email, Orlando will be having its sixth annual SQLSaturday this year on September 29th, 2012, at Seminole...
2012-04-16
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SQLSaturday in Houston
I will be speaking at the Houston SQLSaturday this upcoming Saturday (April 21st). Below is info on my session, which...
2012-04-16
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Three Mistakes Managers Make
I suppose there is an almost limitless number of mistakes that managers can do and do make, it’s the nature...
2012-04-16
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Adding , Deleting and Updating a Column in a table
Many times we need to alter the table definition by adding , deleting or updating a column in the table. In...
2012-04-15
1,419 reads
Derived Table In Sql Server
Derived tables:- Derived tables are the tables which are created on the fly with the help of the Select statement. It is...
2012-04-15
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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