PowerPivot and Market Research
This past Tuesday, February 14, I was invited to discuss how technology can be used to help analyze data for...
2012-02-16
597 reads
Blog Posts
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular query
Learn a new language (Ruby)
The...
2012-02-16
5 reads
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
1. Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular
...
2012-02-16
4 reads
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest...
2012-02-16
570 reads
Tools to Monitor Performance of SQL Server
To gather statistical information on how a server is performing requires, you need to use operating system tools to gather...
2012-02-16
3,199 reads
Comparing Inline and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions
Table-Valued Functions. What a wonderful addition to SQL they make. They take parameters, do some work, and return a result...
2012-02-15
80,888 reads
Dynamic Add/Remove file in Mirroring/Logshipping
Yesterday we were having discussion on high availability feature Mirroring and Log shipping with my colleagues (Amol & Alankar) on whether...
2012-02-15
486 reads
Excerpt from Upcoming Book by Grant Fritchey Called Learn “SQL Server in a Month of Lunches”
Later this year, a new book by author Grant Fritchey, called Learn SQL Server in a Month of Lunches, will...
2012-02-15
1,666 reads
Meme 15 - LinkedIn
The #Meme15 assignment from Jason Strate (Blog/@StrateSQL) for February is to describe how and why we use LinkedIn. I felt...
2012-02-15
395 reads
PASS Data Arch VC presents Steve Simon - On Beyond Zebra AdventureWorks OR Where Did I Go Wrong?
I meet Steve when he came down from New England area for SQL Saturday #28 IN Baton Rouge, LA. He...
2012-02-15
738 reads
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