In checklist form! Absolute I-probably-won’t-survive-without-this ESSENTIALS Wallet Prescriptions Glasses/contacts Phone and cord Laptop and cord (okay, maybe this is just me) A jacket (after all, Seattle) Generally A GOOD IDEA...
2019-10-29
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I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers ... Continue reading
2019-10-28
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If you’re running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that...
2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in […]
The post Build a...
2019-10-28
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This article is Part 1 in a series of articles showing how to build a SQL Cluster Lab. It covers building a Windows Cluster in Hyper-V that supports both...
2019-10-28
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I get asked quite a bit about my thoughts on the impact Cloud computing has on a DBA role. Still in 2019, I get people say oh it’s the...
2019-10-28
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The problemYou don’t know anything about Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.Do any of the following describe you
You are running your business, and you’ve heard all about “the cloud” and how it...
2019-10-28
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The problemYou don’t know anything about Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.Do any of the following describe you
You are running your business, and you’ve heard all about “the cloud” and how it...
2019-10-28
13 reads
DCAC recently had a custom PowerPoint template built for us. We use PowerPoint for teaching technical concepts, delivering sales and marketing presentations, and more. One thing I love about...
2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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I’ve had a lot of video collaboration tools come across my desk over the last decade. I’ve depended on many of these to communicate with Redgate in the UK...
2019-10-28
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By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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