Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy
One of the challenges I’ve had over the years is figuring out a way to add the SQL Service accounts...
2012-03-27
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Blog Posts
SQL in the City: Free SQL Server Event in London
Red Gate Software has announced “SQL in the City: London,” to be held on Friday, July 13, 2012, at the...
2012-03-27 (first published: 2012-03-19)
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SQL Server # Storing Hierarchical Data – Parent Child n’th level # TSQL
Introduction
Today, I would like to explain one way in which we can store the HIERARCHICAL data in SQL tables. A...
2012-03-27
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SQL Server 2012 Synopsis - Mission Critical Applications Combined With The Fantastic 12 New Features or "The Baker's Dozen" as described by Microsoft this Week
Notes by Hugo S., Print Screens from three Microsoft Presentations
7 December, 2011 with Additions combined from early February 2012 day-long...
2012-03-27
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SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 3
One of the challenges you face with SQL Server database mirroring is making sure that all of the databases that...
2012-03-27
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Stress Thoughts–Part 2
One thing I’ve learned is that even losing one hour of sleep or just not sleeping well degrades my ability...
2012-03-27
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X on XMLA: ii. Basic Structure of XMLA
The second post in the XMLA series focuses on the basic structure of XMLA. At its heart, XMLA is XML. ...
2012-03-27
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Off to Vegas for DevConnections
A few last minute prep items for DevConnections and I leave in a few hours for Las Vegas. My first...
2012-03-26
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Seldom Used Indexes
On occasion you may ask yourself if there are any under used indexes in your database. If not you, then...
2012-03-26 (first published: 2012-03-20)
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Slides & Samples from my SQLSaturday #105 presentation about Advanced SQL Server Troubleshooting
As I have announced in my session last Saturday in Dublin, you can find here the
slides & samples for download.
Thanks...
2012-03-26
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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...
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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