T-SQL Tuesday Reminder – Coming next week
Matt Velic is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. You have a week to get a post ready on the apply...
2011-04-11
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Blog Posts
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 10
Wow, we are 1/3 of the way through this series! Today’s post is “Classic Intel Xeon Processor Numbering Explained”. By...
2011-04-10
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 9
For Day 9 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended AMD Processor List for...
2011-04-10
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Powershell Day 10
Day 10 Working with Directory and Registry As you know, Powershell works with command prompt, and you know it works...
2011-04-10
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Shrinking the log file script for SQL server database
AdvertisementsShrinking the log file script for SQL server database
This script mainly for a DBA’s, because most of the time...
2011-04-10
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So, what’s this heap thing?
G’day,
I’ve been asked a few times lately to explain what a heap is.
I’m quite happy to do this, but I...
2011-04-10
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SQLBits 8 – That’s a Wrap
This weekend saw the 8th SQLBits conference take place amidst glorious British sunshine by the sea in Brighton.
For those unable...
2011-04-10
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Powershell Day 9
Day 9 Process and Service Service: For Powershell we can also work with services. You can see which all services...
2011-04-09
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 8
For Day 8 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended Intel Processor List for...
2011-04-08
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An Appeal to Those Writing Training Documentation and Labs
I'm coming to the end of a week of training in a Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) Course. I should expect...
2011-04-08
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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...
Forums
Safe and Reliable Transport of Farm Machinery: Solutions of the Modern Agricultu
Ship A1 Auto Transport is a reliable provider of services who delivers safe and...
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