I see no SQL Server 2008 Counters in Perfmon?
This problem is a real pain and I’m yet to determine why this issue occurs because my understanding is SQL...
2012-02-21
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Basit's SQL Server Tips
Essential Trace Flags for Recovery & Debugging
The following trace flags are essential for a variety of recovery scenarios. The use of trace flags allow the DBA...
2012-02-20
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How can I configure SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP ports?
Run the SQL Server Configuration Manager, expand SQL Server Network Configuration and select the protocols for appropriate instance. Double click...
2012-02-18
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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
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A Guide for Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
Check out my article on SQLServerCentral.com in which I discussed SQL Server 2008 R2 installation setup which you can use to install...
2012-02-14
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Why you may or may not consider using Database Snapshots!
Microsoft introduced database snapshots with SQL Server 2005. A database snapshot is a static, read-only copy of a source database...
2011-12-17
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Configuring and monitoring transactional replication between two SQL Server 2005 instances…
Replication often plays an important part in your database management strategy. An organization may use database replication for load balancing,...
2011-12-17
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Get drive & mount points space information in SQL Server 2005 by using CLR Stored Procedure?
As we know xp_fixeddrives can only be use to retrieve normal fixed drives space information. It cannot be used to retrieve information...
2011-12-16
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My first blog post!
I’ve started my own SQL blog. Hopefully I’ll write some interesting SQL blog posts here soon.
2011-12-16
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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