IP and Default Trace…T-SQL Tuesday #005 - A week early - D'oh
As chance would have it, I had been checking Adam’s blog daily for the last few days to find the...
2010-04-06
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Blog Posts
Is Anybody Using That Stored Procedure?
Introduction
From time to time I get asked to check if a stored procedure is still used in preparation for dropping...
2010-04-06
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LV April SQL Users Group Meeting
S3OLV or SSSOLV will be holding our meeting Thursday April 8th. The User Group is in affiliation with PASS and...
2010-04-06
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PASS Update #28 (SQLSaturday Transition)
We’ve been busy on the transition and we’re finally at a place where we can give you an update on...
2010-04-06
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SCSUG April Meeting Reminder
A reminder to anyone in the Brevard County Florida area:
The SCSUG monthly meeting is at 6:30 on Thursday, April...
2010-04-06
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Swing and a Miss
I missed my first newsletter today. It wasn’t until I went to schedule tomorrow’s that I realized I hadn’t sent...
2010-04-06
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Uninstall 64 bit and reinstall 32 bit SQL Server
For reason's beyond the scope of this post I needed to uninstall a 64 bit version of SQL server standard...
2010-04-06
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What I Do to Prep a Technical Presentation
This was a question asked on Twitter the other day, "How do folks prepare for a presentation?" Here are some...
2010-04-06
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Writing With More Than One Voice
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now and have slowly settled into the style and pattern of blogging...
2010-04-06
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A DMV a Day – Day 5
The DMV for Day 5 is sys.dm_db_mirroring_auto_page_repair, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for every automatic page-repair attempt...
2010-04-05
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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
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