‘Tis the Season for SQL Leaving
With the announcement of Brent Ozar (Blog | Twitter ) leaving Quest for SQL Skills, Exceptional DBA finalist Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter)...
2010-06-29
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Blog Posts
ASK SQLServerCentral - The New Community Model
We had an unexpected switch last weekend. My boss decided that we were ready to move from the Stack Exchange...
2010-06-29
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Conference Calls Are Hard
Conference calls are a fact of life for most of us. Remote offices, remote workers, clients – lots of reasons to...
2010-06-29
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Does a missing data file send a database suspect?
Short answer: No
I keep seeing this come up on various forums when people ask what makes a database go suspect...
2010-06-29
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Getting Drive Info Part 1, sp_OA
This blog series will cover several different methods to collect drive information from a Windows server that is running SQL...
2010-06-29
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Manage Reporting Services using SSMS
Sometimes you’ll want to manage reporting services functionality through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). This would be the case if...
2010-06-29
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Partition Alignment and Late Night Infomericals
Late night infomercials make some amazing claims. “If you order now you too can cut through a cinderblock wall and...
2010-06-29
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SQL Saturday #28 (Baton Rouge) – All about User Groups
This year at SQL Saturday #28 we will be featuring a User Group Booth alongside the Sponsor booths. The User Group...
2010-06-29
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SQL Server Instance Checklist
This is my third in a series of checklists that I am putting together for a new book designed for...
2010-06-29
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The Breakfast Plan Goes Awry
Here’s the editorial for SSC today and while it’s a humorous story about asking for donuts and getting a free...
2010-06-29
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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