Transforming Event Log Data
Several months ago I described a solution for Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell. In the solution, the SqlProxy module...
2012-03-28 (first published: 2012-03-23)
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Chad Miller
Reconciling SPNs
As part of troubleshooting Kerberos authentication for SQL Server I had to verify SPNs so I thought I’d blog about...
2012-02-20
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Sharing Profiles
A question came up in a class I was teaching: “How do you share your Powershell profiles across accounts?”
Well, there’s...
2012-02-11
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Sarasota IT Pro Camp
Join system administrators IT professionals and database professionals in addition to managers at all levels who work with Microsoft technologies...
2012-02-04
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Orlando IT Pro Camp 2012 Presentation
Presentation and scripts from my Storing Powershell Output session at Orlando IT Pro Camp 2012.
2012-01-31
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Orlando IT Pro Camp
The Orlando IT Pro Camp marks our third event after Tampa and South Florida. As with the prior IT Pro...
2012-01-10
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Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell
Ed Wilson (Blog|Twitter) aka Scripting Guy is kicking off another guest blogger week (Nov 28th 2011) with my guest blog...
2011-11-28
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Some SQL Server Security Housekeeping
Managing SQL Server security changes in mass is something which screams automate it. Let’s look a at few examples using...
2011-11-14
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Delegated SQL Server Administration with Powershell
Providing delegated administration to groups that need to perform various security functions has always been a difficult task, but thanks...
2011-11-07
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Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access
I’ve seen this come a few times at work and I’m sure most you have experienced something similar.
Someone or an...
2011-10-22
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
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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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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