T-SQL Tuesday 19 Disasters and Recovery
This post is my contribution to T-SQL Tuesday, hosted this month by Allen Kin (blog | twitter).
A first step in any disaster recovery...
2011-06-14
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Chad Miller
Tampa SharePoint Saturday 2011
I presented a 75 minute session at Tampa SharePoint Saturday on PowerShell Basics.
The presentation and demo scripts can be found...
2011-06-11
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Use ACE Drivers and PowerShell to Talk to Text Files
As a follow up to my SQLRally 2011 Scripting Guy Guest Blog Post which dealt with Excel and Access files,...
2011-05-10
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SQLRally 2011 Scripting Guy Guest Blog Post
Ed Wilson (Blog|Twitter) aka Scripting Guy has series of SQL Server related posts the week of May 2nd 2011 including...
2011-05-04
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Upcoming Events
If live in Central/South Florida or are planning a trip, we’ve got several IT community events worth checking out…
May
SQLRally in...
2011-04-08
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Lessons Learned Part 2
In part 1 I provide an overview of concept of IT Camp, how the plan was developed by borrowing ideas...
2011-04-03
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Lessons Learned Part 1
On Saturday, March 19th 2011 we held the first ever Saturday “code camp” style event for the IT Pro (Sys...
2011-03-30
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Presentation
I presented a one hour session at Tampa IT Camp on SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX): “In this session we...
2011-03-20
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To Script or Not To Script
When approaching an automation problem the first questions you must answer is whether you should even invest the time to...
2011-03-15
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Restore and Relocate Database Files Using PowerShell
I was recently asked a question on restoring a database using PowerShell with the following requirements
Take a database backup file...
2011-03-14
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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