Lost that Single-User Connection?
You have changed your database to single_user mode to do a task. As you go about your business, you lose...
2013-05-06
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SQL RNNR
Lost that Single-User Connection?
You have changed your database to single_user mode to do a task. As you go about your business, you lose track of which connection was the single_user connection. You...
2013-05-06
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MCM Road Less Traveled
I began this post back in October of 2012 after learning that I had passed the SQL Server 2008 MCM...
2013-04-16
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MCM Road Less Traveled
I began this post back in October of 2012 after learning that I had passed the SQL Server 2008 MCM Knowledge exam. I had set it aside in hopes...
2013-04-16
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Las Vegas April 2013 UG Meeting
AlwaysOn – Finally, A usable ‘mirror’!
In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are...
2013-04-10
860 reads
Las Vegas April 2013 UG Meeting
AlwaysOn – Finally, A usable ‘mirror’! In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are great, but the mirror/secondary database is not...
2013-04-10
3 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Backstory
Each month the SQL community comes together for an important party. This is the blog party that was the brain...
2013-03-12
1,069 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Backstory Each month the SQL community comes together for an important party. This is the blog party that was the brain child of Adam Machanic (Twitter) known as T-SQL Tuesday....
2013-03-12
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March 2013 LV UG Meeting
Another month and we have another installment (meeting) for the Data Professionals of the Las Vegas area.
This month we will...
2013-03-11
895 reads
March 2013 LV UG Meeting
Another month and we have another installment (meeting) for the Data Professionals of the Las Vegas area. This month we will be getting back on schedule with the usual...
2013-03-11
2 reads
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...
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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